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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.
Ok, go to court and do it, or shut the fuck up.
They're like five year olds...
Most five year olds are far better behaved.
The ones that have faced consequences for their actions, sure.
~~They’re~~ They
I see what you did there
They like five year olds?
Yes
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 right wingers are truly dumber than dirt, so I'm sure the base eat that nonsense right TF up.
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.
Lieutenant Governor. But .. still no.
Somehow shitheels always find a way to be shit, I'm afraid.
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.
They have been bleating for nearly three years now how "it wasn't really an insurrection", and I suppose that has not worked well, because most people continue to ignore them and their nonsense narratives about that. Now they are going to downplay the very term itself. Makes a certain kind of sense.
Loves his son, flaws and all
Yep, the Republicans know the password to get the presidency. Hunter2
This is going to lead to a civil war. The Republicans simply cannot accept any consequences for their actions, or any failure of their insane message to win a majority vote, so they resort to insurrection.
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.
Trump is in politics and worshipped and protected by these people and he’s a complete buffoon. They’re idiots. Period.
So your argument is that bc one stupid populist got elected, none of the evil shit conservatives do is done intelligently?
If a person supports an idiot as a leader, they’re clearly not a smart person. So you can follow this simple rule:
It takes an idiot to elect an idiot.
Generalisations never hold up with even the most cursory of critiques.
States actually have quite a lot of control of who to put on their ballots. The prelude to the First Civil War had quite a lot of slaving garbage states, like Texas, only state to fight a war for slavery twice, not carrying Lincoln on the ballots, for example.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas
So let me get this straight:
Colorado had to go through legal challenges and courts to remove a twice impeached rapist that’s hell bent on turning America into his own personal bank, but Texas can just remove people at will?