Posted on 01/30/2020 12:07:08 PM PST by kevcol
Federal officeholders -- senators and congressmen -- cannot be recalled. This issue has been litigated both in federal court (Frank Church, Idaho, 1967) and state court (Robert Menendez, New Jersey 2013).
Although Justice Clarence Thomas believes that states should have the right of recall under the 10th Amendment, getting four other justices to agree with him will be a high hill to climb, considering the case law already on the books.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
How could you folks in Utah NOT have known what kind of carpet-bagging, elitist POS you were getting with Twit Womney????? It was pure stupidity voting for this slime-ball!!!!
They can call it: Pierre’s Law.
Does a senator’s pay and expenses come from his state or the federal government?
Federal.
“How could you folks in Utah NOT have known what kind of carpet-bagging, elitist POS you were getting with Twit Womney????? It was pure stupidity voting for this slime-ball!!!!”
IMHO, yours could be the Post Of The Day.
Beautiful
Senators H-1B Lee and Delicious Peter are two real POS’s. It would be great to test this new law and recall those two.
Tim Quinn is obviously a Gentile.
If by some miracle, can you imagine the damage he would have done as President and Ryan as VP?
We dodged a serous bullet.
Seems to me we tried to tell Utah six years was a long time.
Glad they’ve come around to agreeing.
You’re right.
He’s a Democrat mole posing as a Republican.
We need constitution class here at Freerepublic
Term limits. Two (4) year terms for senators, just like Potus, and four (2) year terms for reps then done.
For those who want to make politics a career; serve time as state reps and senators then go to the federal level for a maximum of 16 year (rep and senate); 24 years if become Potus for 2 terms.
This really needs to be fixed. Maybe President Trump can help with that in his second term. I’m sure the pols would fight it tooth and nail but it’s what this country needs. Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, Schumer, and yes, McConnell all prove it.
Until the 17th Amendment, no republic in history denied the lawmaking consent of a component member. Since 1913, the states have been subjected to arbitrary, despotic rule – tyranny. While the Constitution and subsequent laws and court rulings still act on the states, the states have no say in the government of their creation. Left in the wake of the 17A is federalism without a federal government!
“Left in the wake of the 17A is federalism without a federal government!”
That a very nice turn of phrase. Well done!
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