It's time to get busy.

[beautress]

Trump's illegal cheating apparatus is what lead to some of those indictments.

Trump doesn't lie, made sure persons of color had better wages that matched persons of pale skin when he was President, and has endured several fake inquiries, impeachments, and false narratives of colluding with foreign countries, and not a one of them remotely resembled the truth that President Trump has not lied, has not colluded with any foreign countries, but has endured lies spread on the internet, television, and radio by blooming sociopaths who lie for fun and games. The 91 indictments are not 91 convictions, and most of the indictments do not involve breaking either the law nor ignoring the Constitution of the United States of America. The kicker that if one were proven true, the other 90 would be dropped like a hot potato because the goal is to "get Trump." And the Democrat goal never was for the American people, and apparently, it never will be with their leader Biden picking the taxpayer pockets with foreign aid packages of his past participation in government information, especially about what third world country gets a lot of dollars past and future so Biden can demand $5 million for himself and 5 million for his son or they lose the country about to receive millions or even billions, if the entire foreign aid packages become their release button. I have no idea how we can fix that, and except for a couple of Republican congressmen, the rest of the congressmen just ignore the dangerous man in the White House who breaks his word regularly and lies to serve himself and his past false narratives..

 

[OKTexas]

Here are some ideas for needed reform.


As the U.S. begins to see the light at the end of the Trumpian tunnel, it is time to begin thinking about the issue of repair. One should not assume the result of the election, but it is nonetheless worth asking the question: What should be done in a post-Trump world to restore the rule of law?

Of Trump’s many excesses, his assault on legal norms has to rank high in terms of damage to fundamental values that form the fabric of America. His attacks on the free press, the independent judiciary and the independence of the Department of Justice have all created significant damage. His abuse of executive discretionary authority has made a mockery of the concept of checks and balances. His gaming of the judicial system has revealed weaknesses in our legal process. His attempts to place himself (and his family and his business interests) above the law have called into question foundational national conceptions of equal justice. In short, President Trump has led a wrecking crew (aided and abetted by William Barr and Mitch McConnell) that has severely damaged American legal norms of behavior.

Trump’s attacks on foundational norms and principles leave policymakers with two choices. Lawmakers and voters can accept that damage and admit the inevitability of American decline, or they can fight to restore and strengthen the country’s legal guardrails. This post is an effort to begin that fight—to identify practical steps that the country can take to reinvigorate the rule of law and the concept of checks and balances.

Repairing the Rule of Law: An Agenda for Post-Trump Reform

What should be done in a post-Trump world to restore the rule of law?

www.lawfaremedia.org

Poor little commie, the fact is, commiecrat values are antithetical to American values. I loved your biased source crying about presidential discretionary authority. Of course you just love xiden exercising that same authority. Hypocrite much???????

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[Lord Long Rod]

The 14th A's error in not expressly forbidding a former prez who engaged in an insurrection from running for office...

Colorado judge rules Trump ‘engaged in an insurrection’ — but can still run for president

The ruling came in a case brought by progressive activists who sued the state, arguing that Trump was barred from returning to the office.

www.politico.com

............is an illustration of a broad lack of imagination by it's writers, and the framers more generally, in not having the capacity to contemplate a figure like the Stable Genius. It is not the only instance in which he has been advantaged by the absence of language prohibiting actions he has taken simply because no one so antithetical to our democracy had been anticipated. Something we need to remedy.

The Failure of Presidential Reform for a Second Trump Presidency

Yes, “a second Trump administration would be much worse,” as the Vox headline said after Trump’s CNN town hall meeting. And yes, “Trump’s Second-Term Goal” would be to “Shatter[] the Norms He Didn’t Already Break,” as the New York Times reported following the same event.

Yet the “news” in the CNN town hall has long been obvious. Trump’s norm-breaking grew during his presidency (and Trump got better over time at manipulating the bureaucracy). It continued after the 2020 presidential vote and before President Biden was inaugurated, most notably on Jan. 6, but not just then. It has persisted and grown in his post-presidency, most notably (but not exclusively) in how Trump handled classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. And as Isaac Arnsdorf and Jeff Stein at the Washington Post have documented, Trump in videos and speeches has been outlining a second-term agenda that portends a very aggressive and in many ways novel conception of the presidency.

Of course Trump’s second term will be worse on the norms and legal compliance front.

And yet while the nation has been on clear notice of this possibility, it has done very little since Trump left office to build up the institutions of government and put guardrails on the presidency to check these tendencies. The major exception is the Electoral Count Reform Act, a crucial improvement of the presidential selection process. Other modest but important reforms of the presidency include new protections for inspectors general from opportunistic removal and replacement by the president, and power-of-the-purse reform.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/articl...idential-reform-for-a-second-trump-presidency

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[C_Clayton_Jones]

Apparently you haven't seen the released videos of what the Pelosi cops did to people who were peacefully walking through the Capitol and were unarmed. The cops opened fire with hand grenades and disfiguring pop guns that made people's faces bleed and injured people for merely exercising their First Amendment to peacefully protest while Pelosi's cops were targeting innocent people and rearranging their faces with pock marks and blood spilling. I was horrified to see it on another thread around here last night.

Congress needs to pass legislation codifying the mechanism by which treasonous criminals such as Trump are prohibited form holding any Federal office pursuant to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

 

[beautress]

That is not even correct Constitutional language.
You are defining 'insurrection'

Anyway if the 'PEOPLE" (ultimate source of Constitution power) elect him there is no further recourse. It is like Jury Nulification.

The judge failed to review withheld videos of the peaceful protest that Jan. 6 was. After viewing it, I hope there is a retrial of the word "insurrection," which was far, far from what went down in the Capitol building, separated from the false narratives coming out of Deep State Communists' pie hole mouths. The videos withheld by Deep State Democrats show a respectful crowd walking peacefull through the Capitol building, only to be ambushed by Pelosi's Capitol Police who used hand grenades and pop guns that deformed the unarmed, peaceful protesters' faces, necks, hands, torso, and other body parts. Fuhrer Pelosi should be charged with multiple hate crimes and removed from the House.

 

[berg80]

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Poor little commie, the fact is, commiecrat values are antithetical to American values. I loved your biased source crying about presidential discretionary authority. Of course you just love xiden exercising that same authority. Hypocrite much???????

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-Enhanced inspectors general protection. Inspectors general are the first bulwark of accountability—responsible for in-house oversight of the operations of the various federal agencies. Without their oversight, the executive branch has more discretion to do as it pleases.

Since April 2020, President Trump has fired or removed inspectors general from the State, Defense, Transportation, and Health and Human Services departments, as well as from the intelligence community. While the official reasons for their removal are varied, reporting indicates that all of the displaced inspectors general were replaced by individuals perceived by the president to be more loyal to his administration. The laws governing the appointment and removal of inspectors general date back to the Inspector General Act of 1978 and were revised in the 2008 Inspector General Reform Act. The 2008 law allows presidents to fire or remove inspectors general from their posts, requiring only that they inform Congress of their reasoning in writing 30 days before doing so.

The current law is inadequate and does not deter presidential misconduct. For example, the letter informing Congress of Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson’s dismissal read that Trump no longer had the “fullest confidence” in Atkinson. However, Trump seemed to admit his true rationale the next day when he attacked Atkinson for passing the Ukraine whistleblower complaint to Congress—the complaint that touched off the House of Representatives’s impeachment investigation into the president.

Congress must revise the Inspector General Act to provide the inspectors general with greater protection. It might, for example, allow inspectors general a private right of action to contest their removal. Or it might follow the structure of the old independent counsel act and give inspectors general greater formal independence from the executive branch (though this would be subject to legal challenge).

Repairing the Rule of Law: An Agenda for Post-Trump Reform

What should be done in a post-Trump world to restore the rule of law?

www.lawfaremedia.org

Fuck off.

 

[OKTexas]

-Enhanced inspectors general protection. Inspectors general are the first bulwark of accountability—responsible for in-house oversight of the operations of the various federal agencies. Without their oversight, the executive branch has more discretion to do as it pleases.

Since April 2020, President Trump has fired or removed inspectors general from the State, Defense, Transportation, and Health and Human Services departments, as well as from the intelligence community. While the official reasons for their removal are varied, reporting indicates that all of the displaced inspectors general were replaced by individuals perceived by the president to be more loyal to his administration. The laws governing the appointment and removal of inspectors general date back to the Inspector General Act of 1978 and were revised in the 2008 Inspector General Reform Act. The 2008 law allows presidents to fire or remove inspectors general from their posts, requiring only that they inform Congress of their reasoning in writing 30 days before doing so.

The current law is inadequate and does not deter presidential misconduct. For example, the letter informing Congress of Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson’s dismissal read that Trump no longer had the “fullest confidence” in Atkinson. However, Trump seemed to admit his true rationale the next day when he attacked Atkinson for passing the Ukraine whistleblower complaint to Congress—the complaint that touched off the House of Representatives’s impeachment investigation into the president.

Congress must revise the Inspector General Act to provide the inspectors general with greater protection. It might, for example, allow inspectors general a private right of action to contest their removal. Or it might follow the structure of the old independent counsel act and give inspectors general greater formal independence from the executive branch (though this would be subject to legal challenge).

Repairing the Rule of Law: An Agenda for Post-Trump Reform

What should be done in a post-Trump world to restore the rule of law?

www.lawfaremedia.org

Fuck off.

.Politico and now Lawfare, really????????????????????

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