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it's straightforwardly illegal for the feds to financially coerce a state, but obviously you shouldn't bet on that case law holding up
Please take a look at the full-Fed attack on Maine for their governor deigning to stand up for the trans students in their state for a clear-eyed look at how, yes, in fact it is wholly possible for the Administration to impose their desires on a state that doesn't fall in line.
edit to provide a summary video, if you want to nitpick sources then check it against whatever you wish
Now, basically all of them are extremely illegal and deal significant damage to the entire connective tissue of the whole “United States” thing, and arguably cause a nonzero increase in the progress-towards-civil-war-o-meter, which is why they’re generally not an option. But Republicans have the advantage that since a lot of the people supposed to be enforcing the law and judicial decisions about how they can't do this are a bunch of pigs who are on their side they have to care a lot less about illegality (as I've said sometimes in threads about what to do about the police, if you have laws but you don't have people whose job it is to enforce those laws, you do not actually have laws, you have wishes - and, in this case, if the people who are supposed to enforce the laws are suborned by the people actively breaking the laws, you do not actually have people whose job is to enforce the laws), and they don’t actually care if they blow up the country - in fact, that’s probably a bonus, as far as they’re concerned.
Oh, and they are also extremely stupid and perfectly willing to stick their fingers on the "fuck everything up" wall socket without even understanding it's an issue.
So, overall, it's hard to not be worried!
Anyway, last I'll say on that in here, the Save the Whales Dems thread.
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Like, if that's not addressed then the whole topic is pretty much wasted, doesn't matter what the Dems do if they don't play offense with voting rights.
Yeah, that's absolutely fair.
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The future in which it's war, soldiers and militia shooting each other, is also plausible, but that's a separate topic that violates forum rules and I wouldn't discuss it here in this publicly indexed forum anyway.
Edit: I absolutely agree that this potential for violence is worth bringing up in context of motivating Democrats to stop sucking.
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Do you mean at the state level? Because any state they can, they don’t need to.
There's no "middle ground" for violating people's Constitutional rights - rights which apply to everyone here, not just US citizens.
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I'm not an expert on election law, but I do think there are things the fed can do to monkey around with elections. The extent to which they can do damage is, indeed, dependent on how much control Dems have, and so the bluest states are probably the least at risk. But I suspect in some of the purpler states, there may be some struggle to keep things running. And even in blue states, you're going to have red areas where maybe the folks handling elections are going to try to fuck things up.
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This morning a letter jointly-signed by a total of 10 senators and 18 House members has been published, demanding answers about the process by which the administration has been targeting students.
Full text of letter available via NBC Boston
Note: Neither Schumer or Jefferies are signatories.
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Good, though I rather expect the administration's response will be a lot of wharrgarbl that boils down to "we don't gotta tell you ****", and the bipartisan response to that response will be a shrug and "well, we tried".
Good to see Schiff is on there. Disappointed that Padilla isn't.
Time to poke Padilla again, I guess.
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No Duckworth or Durbin, of course. When will the IL Senators finally step down and let someone who's smarter and younger finally take the stage?
Explicitly says that Democrats should be leading on those issues.
The clock is ticking for everyone else to make a public statement, because remaining silent on the issue just means you don't give a damn, and that's unacceptable.
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I can see some people not wanting to make waves, but not 40 members of the Senate and 200 members of the House. I would wager someone wanted to get this out ASAP and just didn't have time to collected hundreds of signatures so they went with a few high profile names and whoever was quickly accessible.
I agree more names would be better, and other people need to get on board, but this isn't a case that anyone whose name isn't on that list of 28 thinks Trump is totes great.
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hmmm I think its probably too soon to conclude that "please dont hit us" is an ineffective strategy