The TDG has a unique feature: the advisory board. The advisors have several different functions. Perhaps the most important will be to help the elected bodies reach their consensual decisions.
Advisors do not have any vote or veto in the elected bodies. This is a unique "power" relationship.
@RealJournalism I, too, hope it doesn't come down to that but how many people will pull a "#Vietnam draft dodge" and flee to #Canada or other countries rather than take a stand. I keep thinking about the #Muslim#activist in #MI who says even if #trump wins, the #Constitution will protect her. Good luck with that!
De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens’ Assemblies (2023) #OpenAccess#Book by M. Reuchamps, J. Vrydagh and Y Welp (eds.).
"Citizens’ Assemblies (CAs) are flourishing around the world. Quite often composed of randomly selected citizens, CAs, arguably, come as a possible answer to contemporary democratic challenges. Democracies worldwide are indeed confronted with a series of disruptive phenomena such as a widespread perception of distrust and growing polarization as well as low performance. Many actors seek to reinvigorate democracy with citizen participation and deliberation. CAs are expected to have the potential to meet this twofold objective."
Mauvais joueur? Absence remarquée de Larcher à la cérémonie de scellement de l'IVG dans la Constitution: "Il ne faut pas faire d'interprétation politique, il est retenu dans son département des Yvelines par des obligations politiques et personnelles", affirme son entourage à la presse. Bien sûr. Le président du Sénat avait dénoncé l'inscription de l'IVG dans la Constitution, affirmant que ce n'était pas un "catalogue de droits sociaux".
"The Court’s conservative majority is clearly playing games. If hurrying helps Trump, they move with alacrity: They decided the Colorado ballot case in 25 days. If dawdling helps Trump, they slow down: The presidential-immunity case (a crackpot theory they should not have even taken up) won’t be heard until late April."
"The three justices on the court appointed by him, along with the other three Republican justices in his thrall, will not be the ones who uphold the law in the Constitution which so clearly disqualifies him from holding a federal office. They’re scared of offending Trump and his violent followers."
"The most important lesson from Monday’s disqualification ruling is that the Supreme Court is broken beyond repair. The reactionary majority made that fact abundantly clear by unilaterally amending the Constitution to remove the Insurrection Clause from the 14th Amendment.
Those sworn to protect the Constitution are dismantling it."
"This decision feels like it’s more about practicality than partisanship; it is the Court doing exactly what the conservatives so frequently say they must not do, supplanting the intent of the Founders, or in this case, the post-Civil War drafters of the 14th Amendment, with their own judgment about what the law should be."
"As Adam Serwer wrote in The Atlantic, their behavior highlights the 'fraud of originalism.' These are jurists who are ostensibly committed to discerning the original meaning of what the Framers intended when they wrote, debated, and passed the Reconstruction Amendments."
"The majority had no reason to nullify the insurrection clause other than an obvious desire to ensure that no other federal candidates are nixed from the ballot because of their participation in Jan. 6. An optimist might say that by doing so, the majority was just trying to inject stability into the upcoming election."
"Conservative judge J. Michael Luttig wrote that 'in the course of unnecessarily deciding all of these questions when they were not even presented by the case, the five-Justice majority effectively decided not only that the former president will never be subject to disqualification," (continued in /2)
…#Colorado had tried to disqualify him on the grounds that the #14thAmendment to the #Constitution, for reasons of history & prudence, bars insurrectionists from office.
Today’s decision overruling CO’s decision was made on the grounds that the Constitution makes #Congress solely responsible for enforcing §3 of the #14A, not the states. Which is funny, because the court is dominated by ideologues who normally love #StatesRights.
IVG: un vote pour l’histoire, mais pas sans mémoire
L’inscription de la liberté d’avorter dans la #Constitution française est une première mondiale. Sa portée symbolique est considérable. Mais elle n’efface ni les difficultés à accéder réellement à l’#IVG, ni l’instrumentalisation politique qu’en fait #EmmanuelMacron.
Un peu à rebours, @ClaudeMalhuret a raconté à quoi aboutit une interdiction de l'IVG : l'infanticide. Avec son expérience de jeune médecin. C'était triste à pleurer. #IVGDansLaConstitution#IVG#Constitution#Congrès
I'm concerned that there's a decent chance future history books will point to this as the start of the second civil war. Without any accountability imposed, the chance of #Trump attempting a more violent version of #J6 when he loses again is damn near 100%.