#MikeJohnson vowed to use House oversight powers while cutting funds in the #government appropriations process & taking other unspecified #legislative measures.
“We’re going to do everything we can, everything within our scope of our responsibility in the Congress, to address it appropriately,” Johnson said at his weekly news conference afterward.
8 #Republican senators announced Fri they would boycott #Democratic#legislative priorities & nominations as payback for #Trump’s #guilty#verdict.
In a joint statement, the senators said they would not “allow any increase to non-security related funding for this administration, or any appropriations bill which funds partisan lawfare.”
A cabal of notorious and/or legendary #european#legislative#transparency orgs and people is looking for someone who can build an #online#platform. Are you made of the material that is worthy of joining this Oceans eleven of democratic badassery? Do you know someone? Pls boost #fedihire#development
Aber: OMG!--Das erinnert mich vom working her so dermaßen an die MAGA-Theorie, #ISLT (Independent State Legislature Theory)*, bei der die US-Landtage Wahlergebnisse hätten entscheiden dürfen!--#Machtergreifung durch die #Legislative anstatt die #Exekutive, sozusagen.
*Glücklicherweise durch das US-Verfassungsgericht vor kurzem verworfen.
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#Wisconsin#Republicans vote to fire #elections director, who may not leave the job
The vote creates a dispute over who is in charge of overseeing elections in a state that is expected to play a critical role in next year’s presidential campaign
#Republicans in the #Wisconsin Senate voted Thurs to fire the swing state’s top #nonpartisan#elections ofcl, whose allies responded by saying the #lawmakers didn’t have the #power to oust her. ~1 hr after the vote, the elections dir filed a #lawsuit to… hang on to her job.
The vote creates a dispute over who is in charge of overseeing elections in a state…expected to play a critical role in next yr’s presidential election & that may have to redraw its #legislative#districts w/in months.