The French Senate on Tuesday endorsed a Constitutional review project bearing significant modifications to the local electoral rules for New Caledonia, but with amendments. The text passed with 233 votes in favour and 99 against....
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This #fascistic pig is pledging to rip up the #Constitution, and impose some sort of religious test for #immigrants. This is such a brazen violation of the plain text of the Constitution that I don't think it's more than absurd pandering to his #Christofascist base, but the threat should compel everyone to stand in defense of the nation, and #VoteBlue like our future depends on it.
The articles accuse #Mayorkas of "willful & systemic refusal to comply w/the #law" in enforcing #border policy & "breach public trust." After passage, #ChuckSchumer called the #impeachment …a "sham” & said #HouseRepublicans failed to demonstrate the Secy committed any impeachable offenses.
The #Senate is widely expected to acquit…. #Republicans in the upper chamber also expressed doubts Mayorkas' actions rise to "high crimes & misdemeanors" the standard set by the #Constitution for impeachments.
#SouthCarolina to use #CongressionalMap deemed #unconstitutional #SCOTUS heard arguments on the redistricting case in Oct but has yet to rule🤬, essentially running out the clock for the #2024election. A #federal#court ruled Thurs that time had run out to draw a new congressional district in #SC & said the state could use its existing map even though it had earlier determined that map was unconstitutional.
Last yr the panel…found the map illegally split neighborhoods in the #Charleston area to make #NancyMace’s race easier. The new lines constituted a #RacialGerrymander that “exiled >30k African American citizens from their previous district,” the panel found.
In arguments before #SCOTUS in Oct, attys for #SouthCarolina argued that lawmakers had not relied on race to draw maps in violation of the #Constitution. Rather, they used #political info to decide…, they said.
“To use the authority of the Dept of #Justice to overturn the election, based on a #lie, w/ no concerns that the dept had no evidence of fraud that affected the election — & Mr. Clark didn’t have any evidence either — what Mr. Clark was attempting to do was essentially a #coup at the #DOJ,” said Hamilton P. ‘Phil’ Fox III, lead prosecuting atty for the DC Bar’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel.
Joshua Russell had pleaded guilty to a fed charge of making an interstate #threat against #Hobbs, a Dem who was AZ’s chief #elections officer in 2022 & is now the state’s gov.
Russell also wrote an apology letter to #Hobbs, saying #socialmedia & news stories had become another #addiction for him, but has since taken courses on #anger management & substance abuse.
“I am truly sorry for my actions. I’m not a violent man, I am a broken man. No one should be the target of such disrespectful behavior,”Russell told Hobbs in the letter.
“The president cannot function, & the presidency itself cannot retain its vital independence,” the brief said, “if the president faces #criminal prosecution for official acts once he leaves office.” [coups aren’t official acts]
The brief, #Trump’s main submission to the justices before the case is argued on April 25, continued to press an expansive understanding of #PresidentialImmunity, one that it said was required by the very structure of the #Constitution.
#SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito on Mon extended a temporary pause on a #Republican-backed #Texas#law allowing state law enforcement authorities to arrest people suspected of crossing the U.S.- Mexico #border illegally.
#Alito's action gives the justices more time to weigh a request by President Joe #Biden's admin to freeze a judicial order allowing the #Texas#law to take effect while its challenge proceeds in the lower courts. The admin has said the TX measure violates the U.S. #Constitution & federal law by interfering w/the U.S. govt's power to regulate #immigration.
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French Senate endorses new election rules for New Caledonia, but with amendments (www.rnz.co.nz)
The French Senate on Tuesday endorsed a Constitutional review project bearing significant modifications to the local electoral rules for New Caledonia, but with amendments. The text passed with 233 votes in favour and 99 against....