R's just keep trying to disenfranchise voters

Georgia’s GOP governor signs bill that could remove local prosecutors and DAs from their jobs

Shrink726 said:

Georgia’s GOP governor signs bill that could remove local prosecutors and DAs from their jobs

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/05/politics/georgia-elections-oversight-commission-kemp-willis

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Imo, this has issues related to the concept of federalism. Like the states being subservient to the nation, municipalities are subservient to the states. I wonder how Kemp would feel about a law allowing the feds to reach down into the states and pull that shite?

All that to protect Trump. Oh, I can see that backfire in the future, when Dems are in the majority.
The nuclear option was thought a fine idea at one time.

R's just keep trying to disenfranchise voters​

Shrink726 said:

Georgia’s GOP governor signs bill that could remove local prosecutors and DAs from their jobs

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/05/politics/georgia-elections-oversight-commission-kemp-willis

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This has nothing to do with "disenfranchising voters".

It's about getting rid of corrupt prosecutors and DA's.

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 18 of Title 15 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regarding prosecuting attorneys, so as to create the Prosecuting Attorneys Oversight Commission; to provide for definitions; to provide for the powers, composition, appointment, and confirmation of such commission; to provide for commission members' terms, vacancies, and removals; to provide for procedures and confidentiality; to provide for related matters; to provide for effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

So, the federal government should be small and limited, but the state government should be despotic and intrusive….

mrjurrs said:

Imo, this has issues related to the concept of federalism. Like the states being subservient to the nation, municipalities are subservient to the states. I wonder how Kemp would feel about a law allowing the feds to reach down into the states and pull that shite?

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states are not "subservient" to the "nation" ( federal government?) the 10th refers to balance of powers
The 10th says that the Feds only has those powers enumerated in the Constitution.
If it isn't listed, it belongs to the states or to the people.

10th
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,
or to the people.

Republican voter disenfranchisement has gone from 'shocking, anti-American, unacceptable' to a normalized political tactic their voters demand.

The party of voter suppression attempts to suppress the vote again.

News at eleven.

Blue Dog said:

So, the federal government should be small and limited, but the state government should be despotic and intrusive….

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Uh, DAs and prosecutors are the state government.

anatta said:

states are not "subservient" to the "nation" ( federal government?) the 10th refers to balance of powers
The 10th says that the Feds only has those powers enumerated in the Constitution.
If it isn't listed, it belongs to the states or to the people.

10th
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,
or to the people.

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Pretending to know isn't knowing.

"This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding."

"Article VI, Paragraph 2 of the U.S. Constitution is commonly referred to as the Supremacy Clause. It establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, take precedence over state laws, and even state constitutions. It prohibits states from interfering with the federal government's exercise of its constitutional powers, and from assuming any functions that are exclusively entrusted to the federal government. It does not, however, allow the federal government to review or veto state laws before they take effect."