Pronounced “ooze”.
Why, that sounds like voter fraud!
Seriously, can he run for the Senate from a state he doesn’t actually live in? If elected, would he have to move?
He can just get Republicans to redraw lines so he doesn’t have to move. Easy-peasy.
And all they need is a Sharpie.
U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 3, clause 3:
No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
So he would have to establish residency sometime before the election.
The Clintons bought a house in New York State about a year before the 2000 election, so Hilary was a resident when she was elected Senator.
But that would also require the Republicans to start actually enforcing such laws. If they thought this guy had the best shot at being elected over a Democrat, do you think they’d give one fig about the fact that he’s technically disqualified from running?
Amy Coney Barrett said today in arguments before the SCOTUS that women don’t need abortions, they can just give the baby up for adoption.
As long as he lives in the state on election day, he’s qualified. He could rent an apartment 30 days before the election and he’d meet the qualifications.
Would it be considered bad politicking if his opponent pronounced his last name correctly?
Don’t forget that you can secretly drop your newborn off at the local fire station.
Oh, sure.
You can drop a baby off at the local fire station, but you can’t drop a vote in an election drop box.
Good to see Republicans have their priorities straight.
It’s probably a fake baby anyway.
You may recall that Dick Cheney was a resident of Texas when Dubya picked him as his running mate, and had to move to Wyoming before Election Day in order to get around the rule that a presidential elector can’t vote for a president and veep who are both residents of his/her own state. Had he not done so, we very well could have wound up with a Bush/Lieberman administration.
This thread moves too fast for me to ask the important questions, like:
In his piece titled National Emergency, why is Elizabeth Warren holding the state flag of Indiana?
That’s the flag of the European Union
Should be fine as long as you don’t mail the baby in.
Did anyone else look at that and automatically assume that Trump was busy tweeting on his phone?
That was 20 years ago, though. The modern GOP is almost entirely different. The Trump Era has solidified that, “So what are you going to do about it?” is an effective response to assertions that the GOP, or any of its members, has violated the law.
If there isn’t some non-GOP entity with the power to punish the GOP, it’s a given that the GOP won’t punish itself. They have control of the Supreme Court, so that’s out. There’s a good chance they’ll take back the Senate in 2022, so that’s probably out. I don’t think the President has the authority to act on this unilaterally, so that’s out.
So who else is there to hold the GOP to acount?
The Second Amendment?
Unfortunately, the Republican interpretation of the Second Amendment is that all white men should carry guns so they can shoot anybody they want to any time they want to.
But they always forget they’re not the only ones that own them.
I’m wondering when he’s going to paint National Emergency II showing the storming of the Capitol. Maybe he missed the news that day,