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House GOP gonna be pissed
"The legislation also includes a rewrite of an 1887 federal election law to close loopholes that then-President Donald Trump and his team sought to exploit on Jan. 6, 2021, aimed at making it harder for presidential candidates to steal future elections. It also grants extra funds to the Justice Department for Jan. 6 prosecutions."
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Thank you, Jesus. >

Gee, no wonder the orange turd posted a video today on his hack social media site railing against the possible passage of this. Of course he made it seem like the world would end and and this was all leftist BS but it just seems he is anti-accountability. Go figure! >

No way. That's a man who takes ownership of his mistakes. According to him he's never made one, but that's not the point! >

I've worked with those people before. Take all the credit for the good and are the 1st ones to point fingers when things go wrong. >

The shitty part is when the managers don't notice and give c that person promotions, etc. I feel like a good manager takes that into account. >

Good managers do, shitty managers don't.
I've left jobs bc of shitty managers who promoted stupid people. Both times it ended up being a good decision and I liked the new job way more. >

I like reading GOP Twitter threads of them showing Democratic pet projects like, 3.M for Clean Energy grants in NY. 
Wow! 
Money for New York, good. 
Clean energy for New York, good. 
Jobs for New York, good. 
Representatives repping their constituents, good. 
Where's the downside?!
Oh that's right the Red states will miss out because their Reps don't care to help. >

“The states that actually contribute to the budget are getting too much” is a hell of a take from the welfare state representatives. >


Where's the downside?!

The huge downside is that Hillary Clinton's emails were found on Hunter Biden's laptop in a pizza parlor in Beghazi! >

The horror! Somebody should investigate that shit! /s >

I’d be willing to help fund a fact finding mission to send a Select group of congresspeople to Benghazi ASAP to sort it out.
(Any chance they’d stay there?) >

Suck it Mccarthy!  3/3 for Biden.  Weird having no shutdowns and govt actually functioning through bipartisanship. >

Remember how proud trump was to shut down the government and then went on to hold the record for the longest shutdown. Crazy times. >

Rick Scott is such a moron. Yes the budget for a nation of 350 million people is longer than a book written when there were less than 350 million people on earth. It’s not a gotcha moment unless the gotcha is discovering how dumb Rick Scott is. >

Rick Scott will, if given the chance, take away Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. He’s open about this desire.
And yet old people vote for him. >

Updatung US election law is significant. This is to prevent another Jan 6th. This is a huge blow to election deniers and MAGA that were trying to undermine US elections and democracy. 
And all of Trump's election denying candidates lost badly in the midterms. It almost feels like our American democracy might survive this far right authoritarian movement.
Not sure what is happening with Moore vs Harper which is another major issue about election law. I was hearing a lot about the case but I haven't heard anything lately. >

I read the article, but what exactly are the changes to election laws in this bill? >

It makes it impossible for a repeat of the Jan 6th coup attempt. Trump tried to get the VP and others to refuse the certification of Biden as president and Trump nearly pulled it off but VP pence refused and certified Biden after the Capitol was secured.
This bill basically streamlines state electors for the president to be certification without potential obstruction from the VP or others and makes the process more quick and impossible to obstruct by future coup or insurrection attempts.
Moore vs Harper is about the power of state legislatures to determine outcomes of elections. The Supreme Court was supposed to rule on this but I'm not sure if they have. >


It makes it impossible for a repeat of the Jan 6th coup attempt

Not impossible, as there are still legal methods (like a successful objection to electoral votes). What the reform act does is close some of the loopholes that existed because there wasn't clarification in existing law (like what actually count as official state electors and what's the role of the VP?).

Moore vs Harper is about the power of state legislatures to determine outcomes of elections.

More specifically whether they can be limited by the courts and the (state) executive. Legislatures already have the Constitutional power to determine the "times, places, and manner" of holding elections. The question to the Court is "Whether a State’s judicial branch may nullify the regulations governing "Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives" prescribed by the Legislature and replace them with regulations of the state courts' own devising". Basically, can a state court overrule an election-related law and impose their own set of rules?
The most likely ruling, if the recent arguments are any indication, wont be a wholesale "state legislatures can do whatever they want", but something more along the lines of "Courts can invalidate state laws but not impose their own rules" (like appointing a special team to create district maps). >

Thank you for the clarification. Do you know when the Supreme Court is going to rule on State Legislature Theory? >

"By next summer" is what I've read. >

how dare they fund the government! >

Im glad this happened but it is extremely frustrating that every spending bill has to be put through this process. We shouldnt need to wait till the 11th hour, wait until the lobbyists get their provisions, give pork to the various districts with political influence and then shove in a bunch of shit that congress doesnt even read or know about. This is just not acceptable or right. >

Welcome to Republican gamesmanship since 2008. >

Not enough in here to really be considered an overhaul, but it’s a good foundation. Clarifying the certification process and taking away the ability for a small group of reps to gum up the works is something to celebrate since those were the things Trump and his collaborators exploited on Jan 6. Yes they also summoned a mob, but the smoke they threw up around the certification process was the pretext. >

I can hear the freedom caucus cries from across the globe. >

Notice a few of the Republicans who were like "duh Biden spending is causing inflation" just voted for a 1.7 trillion bill >

Where is the money being spent? Genuinely curious.