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Please let me know if I need to remove and post this somewhere else....
Caveat: I have a VERY rudimentary understanding of our legal process.
Background:
I winced when I saw the 2022 measure to punish politicians for "not showing up" when denying quorum is actually a legal part of the job (with NO arguments against in the ballot summary [WHAT?!]). One of the only tools available in a purple state when a super majority is busy trying to ram through bills they know half the populace doesn't agree with.
I believe the punishment now is politicians lose the eligibility for reelection if they cross a 10 day threshold of walking out and refusing quorum.
Yet there seems to be no penalty for politicians to create as many anti constitutional bills as they want, that can become laws that then need to be (very expensively) fought until they are eventually invalidated by a court.
TLDR Action:
Why aren't we asking our House and Senate representatives to propose a bill that states if politicians create bills/laws that contradict the constitution, then they are ineligible for reelection?
There are legal ways to challenge and change the constitution to take away Americans' rights. Why aren't we making them do it the "proper" way? The wasting of tax payers' time and money should stop.
Stopping unconstitutional legislation comes out of the people's pocket. We should be making it come out of theirs.
I don't know how to do this, or if this has been done before and failed. I have a list of Oregon representatives, I imagine this request would be more successfully sent to Independents / Republicans.
Thoughts?*
*helpful, full sentences preferred
Caveat: I have a VERY rudimentary understanding of our legal process.
Background:
I winced when I saw the 2022 measure to punish politicians for "not showing up" when denying quorum is actually a legal part of the job (with NO arguments against in the ballot summary [WHAT?!]). One of the only tools available in a purple state when a super majority is busy trying to ram through bills they know half the populace doesn't agree with.
I believe the punishment now is politicians lose the eligibility for reelection if they cross a 10 day threshold of walking out and refusing quorum.
Yet there seems to be no penalty for politicians to create as many anti constitutional bills as they want, that can become laws that then need to be (very expensively) fought until they are eventually invalidated by a court.
TLDR Action:
Why aren't we asking our House and Senate representatives to propose a bill that states if politicians create bills/laws that contradict the constitution, then they are ineligible for reelection?
There are legal ways to challenge and change the constitution to take away Americans' rights. Why aren't we making them do it the "proper" way? The wasting of tax payers' time and money should stop.
Stopping unconstitutional legislation comes out of the people's pocket. We should be making it come out of theirs.
I don't know how to do this, or if this has been done before and failed. I have a list of Oregon representatives, I imagine this request would be more successfully sent to Independents / Republicans.
Thoughts?*
*helpful, full sentences preferred