US PoliEra |OT12| The Moscow Project
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20th amendment specifies dates for congress to convene and for the president to be inaugurated.
wikipedia says they picked early dates to reduce lame-duck sessions as much as possible, because lame-duck sessions were even longer under the original dates.
maybe they give the president a couple extra weeks to allow for transition work to go more smoothly? idk.
If he is smart, he's living like a damn king there. He makes $160k/year from Patreon alone.
Still, I would and I have traded a low COL to live in a place that isn't fucking garbage like MS. Even OH was too much for me.
Because of the Great Depression.
At the time of Roosevelt's election in 1932, the new president and Congress assumed office the following March, yielding an extremely long lame-duck period. In early 1933, Roosevelt had to wait months before he could actually begin implementing his programs. To prevent this issue in the future, Congress passed an amendment moving the inauguration to January 20 and the Congress's assumption of office to January 3.
(a) 2/3 of each chamber of Congress plus ratification by 3/4 of state legislatures. (The president plays no part.)
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(b) a constitutional convention, which has never been called, and no one has any idea of what it would entail.
I doubt we'll ever see another amendment in our lifetimes with how polarized the country has gotten.
Virginia can pass the Equal Rights Amendment still, but Congress would probably have to pass a bill extending the deadline.
So 2/3rd of Federal House and senate, or state legislatures?
2/3 of House and Senate is step 1.
Ratification by 3/4 of state legislatures is step 2.
You need both to happen.
You can also have ratifying conventions in 3/4 of states for step 2, but only one amendment, the 21st, has ever been ratified that way.
What are folks like Tom Daschle up to nowadays. 2014 is when we lost many of these red states I don't see why we couldn't get them back. Idaho and Wyoming sure are longer than long shots but still there are other more narrowly defined red states that I could see going blue depending on the economy, Trump, and personal scandals. Montana, Iowa, Louisiana are all close states two of which have democratic Governors. I just figure they should have to really work for it.
Wasn't the 21st Amendment passed by state conventions?
edit: I see that's an alternate form of (a), state conventions instead of legislatures
there's the proposing-amendment step and the ratifying-amendment step.
the national convention's never been used to propose an amendment. the 21st used the state conventions for ratification it after a congressional vote on the amendment..
State ratifying conventions =/= constitutional convention
State ratifying conventions occur ONLY after 2/3 of each chamber of Congress has passed an amendment and sent it to the states with which to deal. Only the 21st has been passed in this way, as I noted in my post above.
Constitutional conventions must be called by 2/3 of the states. They take it to Congress in that scenario, not vice versa.
Seriously, Moore was a pedophile and barely lost.
Smith's crime is being a devout racist who wishes the south had won. That's not going to lose her any support from Republicans.
I believe MS is the most inelastic state in the US. A quarter of white people is a tall order when it's the most racist white population in the country.
Most of the South you need somewhere between 30-40% of the white vote depending on the make up of the electorate but its always going be 30% minimum.
Most Democrats get 10-15% normally and its getting the last 15-20% to make it to the 30-40 range is always the hard part.
Like Auto said in most diverse states such as NJ, NY etc Democrats can easily count on a strong plurality of whites even without actually winning them coupled with strong minority edge to easily win.
No such thing in the South
Right. In most states Democrats can count on at least 35% of the white vote, even higher in some educated states and areas.
Mississippi is the poorest, most racially polarized state in the country. I think that poll had Espy getting 15% of white voters.
Because theyve always been poor because the South has always sucked.
I think kornacki said you need to pull 96-4 in the black demographic and then peel away 20% of the white demographic. It's not going to happen.
Well 96-4 is easy to do, but we really can't even get 20%? Yikes.
MS is very rural. Only one city over 100k (Jackson) and 1 other city over 50k.
Well this definitely isn't true. Mobile has a population of 190k and Birmingham is definitely over 100k too.
It's even more rural than Alabama.
That's Alabama.
Yo, at least they got one thing right with mandatory vaccination.
I think the South was never industrialized like the North for the last few centuries and the devastation from the civil war didn't help either.
Went total war on the south but didn't properly punish the leaders
Reconstruction y'all
EDIT: nope i was wrong.
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If Lincoln had not been killed I think things would have gone down differently. The rivalry between the Radical Republicans and Andrew Johnson threw reconstruction off the rails real quick.
So, democrats have a judiciary problem coming up: https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...34a2b33be52_story.html?utm_term=.ef3916de3327
The long and short of it someone will probably have to go, and after her performance over the summer, that person should be Feinstein, except she's the ranking member, so good luck getting her to abdicate. Considering Grassley is out, the logic of getting rid of the other geriatric makes sense.
The long and short of it someone will probably have to go, and after her performance over the summer, that person should be Feinstein, except she's the ranking member, so good luck getting her to abdicate. Considering Grassley is out, the logic of getting rid of the other geriatric makes sense.
People forget that right after the civil war, many black citizens were elected to office and started to implement changes in the South, which was possible since the North's military was down there enforcing the rule of law.
When they were sold out by the Republicans and Reconstruction ended, they literally had their fairly elected seats stolen by gunpoint and were marched out of state legislatures. Ex-Confederates used their stolen seats and quickly and immediately started passing laws to shut the door behind them.
When they were sold out by the Republicans and Reconstruction ended, they literally had their fairly elected seats stolen by gunpoint and were marched out of state legislatures. Ex-Confederates used their stolen seats and quickly and immediately started passing laws to shut the door behind them.
Has Coons done anything meaningful either? Supposedly he helped convince Flake to budge on that one week delay, but Flake is gone and all that ended up being meaningless anyway.
It'd be a shame if anyone but him or Feinstein gets kicked off. Especially Harris. Removing Harris should not be an option. Fuck all those more senior democrats if they don't make way for skilled young blood like her.
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