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#EndTheFilibuster

If the Democratic Party takes Congress in 2026, the first thing they should do is end the Senate filibuster. It’s a rule that if it ever did serve a purpose, it now prevents any opportunity for Congress to challenge a POTUS that does not respect the rule of law. It’s not in the constitution.

#USpol #SenateFilibuster #EndTheFilibuster

#Republican House Speaker #MikeJohnson AWKWARDLY scrambles after #DonaldTrump puts him in a tough spot with repeated demands to #endthefilibuster over the #governmentshutdown fight. #JordanUhl and @thetraecrowder.bsky.social break it down on @thedamagereport.bsky.social youtu.be/kVuVsGISEXo?...

Republican House Speaker SCRAM...

It would be terrific if #EndTheFilibuster was to trend across our social media platforms until the government reopens.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3m4nppynqep2j

It would be terrific if #EndTheFilibuster was to trend across our social media platforms until the government reopens.

Additional Supreme Court reforms needed. Expand the Court: Expanding the Court aligns with historical precedent. As documented by the Supreme Court itself.

Appoint an independent Judicial Council for SCOTUS: If we accept that no person is above the law, then indeed we need an enforcement mechanism to hold Supreme Court Justices accountable.

#EndTheFilibuster

https://open.substack.com/pub/qasimrashid/p/breaking-biden-announces-key-supreme?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman were threatened after the 2020 election. In December 2023, a judge ordered Donald Trump associate Rudy Giuliani to pay the pair $148 million in damages after he falsely accused them of election fraud in 2020.
the Election Worker and Polling Place Protection Act would create criminal penalties for threats of violence to intimidate voters or election officials

Other initiatives include the Right to Vote Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Advancement Act, and advocating for more funding for state and local governments for the security and administration of elections.

#JohnLewisVotingRightsAct
#EndTheFilibuster

https://www.gpb.org/news/2024/03/15/us-sen-jon-ossoff-introduces-legislation-protect-election-workers-polling-places

#SettlerColonialSCOTUSMustBeExpanded

#CorruptRobertsCourt #JohnLewisVotingRightsAct #ShelbyCounty
#EndTheFilibuster
#AbolishTheElectoralCollege
#ExpandTheCourt
#GenocideJoeWasFineWithTheLoserOfThePopularVoteAppointingThreeJustices
https://www.levernews.com/the-plan-to-take-out-voting-rights/

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/10/31/message-progressives-adam-schiff-not-your-friend

#DemocratsAreMAGAInSheepsClothing: "Schiff's record on foreign policy, civil liberties, human rights and other key issues has often put him more in line with Republicans than with liberal Democrats," international affairs scholar Stephen Zunes told me. Klein recalled, "The most Schiff was willing to move was from the Blue Dogs to slightly less odious New Democrats."

#GQPDemocratsCensureTlaib
#VoteProgressiveNoMatterWho #AbolishTheElectoralCollege #EndTheFilibuster #PassTheJohnLewisVotingRightsAct #PentagonIsTheBiggestEmitter #BipartisanUpgradeOfTheNuclearArsenalWas1TrillionDollarsIn2016 #WhatCouldCongressDoWith2TrillionDefenseDollars

https://open.substack.com/pub/extremearturo/p/analysis-the-dojs-uvalde-report-falls?r=11rw36&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

It provides no answers for the obvious cover-up and fails to hold anyone accountable. However, the report didn’t shy away from naming names.
Although damning, the DOJ stopped short of filing any charges or recommending the firings of any local, state, or federal law enforcement officers or authority figures involved in the failure to save lives for the sake of promoting themselves as heroes. Despite the obvious negligence, and ultimately, culpability, the report doesn’t mention the word “negligent” or “negligence” once.
#copoganda #ItsTheGuns #StateSanctionedViolence #EndTheFilibuster
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Israel-Gaza war live: Israel’s bombardment of Gaza ‘narrowing the window’ for renewed hostage deal, says Qatar PM https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/dec/10/israel-gaza-war-israeli-forces-continue-push-into-southern-gaza-amid-apocalyptic-humanitarian-situation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

MAGA joins regional tyrants to aide semi fascists in a genocide by pretending to prevent total erasure with a nonsolution two state solution- main aim is to expand #TFG’s kleptocracy of weapons and business: AbrahamAccords.

#EndTheFilibuster #OnePersonOneVote #KuchnerTookBillions

https://www.commondreams.org/news/voting-in-prison

#EndTheFilibuster: (Progressive) Pressley stressed that "with Republicans and the Supreme Court stopping at nothing to undermine voting rights and exclude Black and brown folks from participating in our democracy, we must protect and expand access to the ballot box—including for incarcerated citizens."

#CorruptRobertsCourt #JohnLewisVotingRightsAct

https://newrepublic.com/article/176446/north-carolina-republicans-win-war-democracy

#CorruptRobertsCourt: Thanks to more than a decade of extreme partisan #gerrymandering, Republicans have an ironclad grip to effectively decide most of the state’s legislative races, both for the state Assembly and for Congress, before voters even cast a ballot.

#JohnLewisVotingRightsAct #EndTheFilibuster #ReformTheMedia

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/entertainment_life/jackson-offers-history-an-old-school-state-fair-with-free-biscuits-and-fun-fall-events/article_bfe6dc1a-6206-11ee-b73c-47de736fbb4c.html

#CRTIsHistory: Observant visitors can't help but feel the curatorial tension between the two.
Medgar and Myrlie Evers' home was the nerve center of the Jackson Civil Rights Movement. These days, it's frozen in time
#JohnLewisVotingRightsAct #EndTheFilibuster #ExpandTheCourt #JusticeForEmmettTill

"The #Constitution specified supermajorities in specific cases (e.g., treaties, Senate removal after an impeachment). It was never intended to be the norm...

The #minority should not be able to permanently block #majority governance. That was never the constitutional structure envisioned by the Founding Fathers.

#Democrats can make these changes if they have 50 votes plus the vice president."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/02/democrats-rule-changes/

#Politics #Governance #EndTheFilibuster #USPol #USA #News

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Democrats for too long have been squeamish about allowing actual majority votes (or, rather, majority rule). The Constitution specified supermajorities in specific cases (e.g., treaties, Senate removal after an impeachment). It was never intended to be the norm.

The Senate created filibuster exceptions for judicial confirmations and reconciliation bills. Especially for matters pertaining to democracy (e.g., voting rights, investigation of a coup, legislative “correction” of an erroneous Supreme Court statutory interpretation), the filibuster could be limited in time (maybe 120 days); the filibustering party could be required to hold the floor (a “talking” filibuster); the 60 votes required for cloture could gradually reduce over time (e.g., 57 for cloture after a week, 55 after two weeks, etc.); or some combination thereof. The minority should not be able to permanently block majority governance. That was never the constitutional structure envisioned by the Founding Fathers.

Democrats can make these changes if they have 50 votes plus the vice president. Democrats running in 2024 should say how they stand on these matters. If they want to continue to perpetuate the “tyranny of minority” by allowing the status quo, voters should know.

After all, GOP shenanigans have shown that Republicans cannot be trusted to operate in good faith under the rules. The only alternative is to change those rules — or succumb to the evisceration of our democracy.

"the problem is #Republicans’ insistence on denying the key component of a #democracy: the power of the people to elect the leaders of their choice to #govern...

#Democrats can change Senate rules and customs that are entirely outside the constitutional order and pile one #MinorityRule gimmick on top of another (e.g., a #filibuster to block a vote in the Senate, which already favors sparsely populated, overwhelmingly White states)."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/02/democrats-rule-changes/

#EndTheFilibuster #USPol #USA #News

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The authors have no quarrel with legitimate protections for minority rights (e.g., the Bill of Rights, an independent judiciary, federalism, separation of powers). Rather, the problem is Republicans’ insistence on denying the key component of a democracy: the power of the people to elect the leaders of their choice to govern. Republicans have grown attached to tactics that perpetuate minority rule, including thwarting voting (e.g., filibustering voting rights legislation) and denying election results (e.g., signing onto a brief to disenfranchise millions of Americans, baselessly challenging Biden’s electors).

Some democratic course correction can be achieved only through constitutional amendment or legislation. However, Democrats can change Senate rules and customs that are entirely outside the constitutional order and pile one minority-rule gimmick on top of another (e.g., a filibuster to block a vote in the Senate, which already favors sparsely populated, overwhelmingly White states).

Hello! Without #LandBack and #Reparations #democracy remains fragile due to the #profits of #injustices from #HumanRightsViolations in #land and #labor by #GQP #supremacists empowered with #falsehoods that underlie the needs #AbolishTheElectoralCollege and #EndTheFilibuster

#EndTheDeathPenalty #AbolishThePrisons #EndQualifiedImmunity #RestoreGenerationalWealth lost to #Redlining

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-09-10/new-poll-finds-california-voters-resounding-oppose-paying-reparations

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/07/raphael-warnock-voting-rights/

Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) introduced the Preventing Election Subversion Act of 2023 to “limit the arbitrary and unfounded removal of local #election #officials” and allow those who oversee federal elections to challenge their removal proceedings in federal court. It would also #protect #votersrights by restricting the ability of conservative activists to launch mass challenges to #voter #eligibility in states like Georgia.
#JohnLewisVotingRightsAct #gerrymandered #OnePersonOneVote #VotingRights #EndTheFilibuster