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Texas Lt. Gov. Floats Removing Biden From State Ballot in Response to Colorado Dumping Trump
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Ok, go to court and do it, or shut the fuck up.
this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2023
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That, by itself, should be cause to remove the Texas Lt. Gov from office. He's literally committing sedition and violating his oath of office.
I’m sure Texas will get right on that, just as soon as they’ve removed accused felon Ken Paxton from office.
I recognize this is not the point of the post, but an accused felon doesn’t really make sense, since a felon is someone who is formally tried and convicted of a felonious crime.
Not sure if you're just arguing semantics here, but just for clarification in case you, or anyone else, is unsure why the other person might have said "accused felon", it is because Paxton was indicted for felony securities fraud back in 2015. He has used his political office to delay the trial since then, and has yet to be tried. 8 years and counting since the indictment without a trial. Hence, "accused felon".
Probably worth noting: His wife is a lawmaker, and he was impeached. But impeachment is only the first step in removing someone from office, just like indictment is the first step in a criminal trial. He was impeached by the House of Representatives, but it failed to pass in the senate because they voted along party lines. His wife refused to recuse herself from the vote.
If violating the oath of office was a real way to have people fired, the vast majority of politicians and judges would be in prison right now.
Don't tempt me with a good time
They're like five year olds...
If he had any real reason to do so, it would be fine. Their problem is that "retalitation" is not a valid reason according to A14.
Radio hosts are saying failure to secure our border is an insurrection. I wish I was making it up.
That's just because they don't understand words with more than three syllables.
The more extreme republicans in Congress have been trying to mangle the definition to fit any politics or laws they don’t agree with. Their thinking is something like “this action will hurt the country, therefore people who support it are committing treason!” Of course one problem is they can’t tell the difference between facts and their beliefs/predictions. The other is of course that’s not the definition of treason, which specifically means a betrayal by colluding with an outside party, or an insurrection (you know, like their leader tried). And to normal people it’s obviously so dangerous to start claiming that politics and policies you don’t agree with are “treason”.
They don’t actually believe it’s treason; They’re trying to water down the word, so when Trump gets charged they can go “but look at all the “treason” the Dems have committed! The Dems haven’t been punished for it, so why should Trump?”
It’s a pretty common conservative tactic. Any time a prominent party member is going to be charged with something or have some big scandal break, they start rabble rousing and accusing liberals of whatever that particular key word or phrase is. All to dilute the actual meaning, and be able to go “it really isn’t that bad because the Dems do it all the time.” It doesn’t matter whether or not the democrats actually did any of it; All that matters is that republicans say they did, and conservative voters don’t fact-check them.
Right, that's true. One, they do things tit-for-tat because they're childish. I was actually just commenting somewhere else about the behavior/tactic you describe. I think it's also supposed to make their target audience think "well you're just accusing us of that because we accused you of it" or "that's projection", because these people do think like that and act like it in their own lives.
It also makes no moral sense because if say, my neighbor robbed a store, would that make it okay for me to rob a store? Of course not.
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Can a governor do that, though? From my limited knowledge of US political structure, a governor is part of the executive branch, and overruling electoral process can only be done my the judicial branch.
NAL, but almost certainly not. Governors don't get to decide who gets to appear on a ballot. Trump got removed, because he was found to have participated in an insurrection, a clear violation of the 14th Amendment.
If they want to remove Biden, they'll have to prove he did something disqualifying.
It's Texas. If they want to do it they'll just make up some shit.
But they have to prove it in court, and failing to do that might set some ugly precedents they will come to regret
But they would “prove” it in court. You don’t think the Supreme Court in Texas is stacked with conservatives who would rubber stamp “Biden is an insurrectionist”?
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Sure. States have authority over their own ballot process. Would it be a civil lawsuit violating a person's Constitutional rights that are Constitutionally valid candidates? Could be.
But Dan Patrick is also "joking" for clout, otherwise, he'd just be disrespecting the US Constitution due to political agenda interference. Then again, the GOP is known to act as mere children in their politics and their followers are known to eat that shit right up to 'own the libs'.
I doubt he was joking.
Yeah, we all know he wasn't joking. He probably said it before somebody pointed out that it's against his state constitution to do so. And even if he already knew it was against the constitution, he could have said it just to garner support from his deplorables.
Lieutenant Governor. But .. still no.
Somehow shitheels always find a way to be shit, I'm afraid.
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The Republican party is a criminal conspiracy.
Based on what? Donnie stoked an insurrection and plotted a coup. He's a criminal.
What did Biden do?
They're trying to water down the word "insurrection" as hard as they can so they can invoke the 14th. They haven't really thought it through much more than that, much like the current impeachment discussions.
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No balls, he won't.
He can’t. Like all conservatives in politics- he knows nothing about the laws he swore to uphold.
There's a large swath of dumbassery in the current congress, especially the house and especially since maga, but don't make the mistake of thinking that all cons are dumb. Tons of the senators are lawyers. They aren't ignorant of the law, they're evil people using the law to line their pockets and make the world a worse place. Turtle McConnell couldn't have been grifting in politics for 137 years if he was stupid.
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