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MrMarcello said:
Possibility of the GOP being successful in these impeachments?
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I don't know much about the Pennsylvania one. Based on the twitter replies they probably don't have the numbers but the speaker will allow a vote. I had never heard of the Wisconsin thing till that tweet.
 
MrMarcello said:
Possibility of the GOP being successful in these impeachments?
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Highly doubtful...

https://whyy.org/articles/gop-leaders-throw-cold-water-on-plan-to-impeach-pa-high-court-justices/
Indiana County’s Rep. Cris Dush, the main sponsor, said he the justices “stripped the legislature of their sovereign authority to write legislation.”

But House GOP Leader Dave Reed said he and other leaders are wholeheartedly not on board — noting while they don’t agree with the court’s decision, impeachment is not the answer.

Reed’s spokesman, Steve Miskin, said the resolutions aren’t guaranteed to get committee votes.

And even if they get through at some point, he added, “seeing as the leader doesn’t seem apt to take it up, it’s not getting a vote on the floor right now.”
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He's absolutely correct. It isn't feasible. Anyone who thinks we are going to confiscate 3.5m AR15 from legal private owners is simply living in an alternate reality. A more sensible approach would be to limit the age to 21 and above and make new owners get licensed and entered into the appropriate database.
 
ravi2 said:
If course he is from Alabama, what else is he supposed to say?
Coming out against assault rifles or incest can end you politically down there.
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If this is the attitude the dems have then they better not scold anyone on the left who doesn't want to vote for them.

What's the point of getting democrats elected if they just act like republicans anyway?
 
Australia had millions of guns in circulation.
An assault weapons ban is possible if there's a political will.
Jones is only a democrat in name.
 
Jones is the "not the pedophile" candidate from that election. He's one of the few senators you can say with certainty are losing the next one. So the only reason for him to vote shittily is because that's who he is.
 
Adisa said:
Australia had millions of guns in circulation.
An assault weapons ban is possible if there's a political will.
Jones is only a democrat in name.
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There is no political will and there isn't likely to be since Dems don't vote on guns as single issue voters, where as plenty of Republicans do. So at the end of the day there will be continued political bifurcation on assault weapons bans (whatever that means). Therefore the easier solution at the moment is raise the legal buying age, make buyers get licensed, reduce magazine sizes, and obviously ban bump stocks. These are all feasible regulations where there are to varying degrees, agreement from moderate factions on both sides.
 
Silva said:
Jones is the "not the pedophile" candidate from that election. He's one of the few senators you can say with certainty are losing the next one. So the only reason for him to vote shittily is because that's who he is.
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That's why he should be voting fearlessly, yet he faithfully toes the Trump-GOP line.
 
A BETRAYAL
The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death.
https://features.propublica.org/ms-13/a-betrayal-ms13-gang-police-fbi-ice-deportation/

It would have read like a journal entry by any 17-year-old, except this one detailed murders, committed with machetes, in the suburbs of Long Island. The gang Henry belonged to, MS-13, had already killed five students from Brentwood High School. The killers were his friends. And now they were demanding that he join in the rampage.
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he was 12, standing in the coconut grove, and it was time to complete the final initiation rite. He took the machete. It was sharper, with more teeth, than the one he used for chores at home. El Destroyer traced his index finger on the trembling man to show Henry where to cut: first the throat, then across the stomach.

“Your first killing will be hard,” El Destroyer told him. “It will hurt. But I’ve killed 34 people. I’m too tired to do this one.” He said the devil was there in the grove and needed fresh blood. And if Henry didn’t kill the man, the gang would kill them both.

So, to live a little longer, I had to do it.

But now, Henry wrote, he wanted to escape the life that had followed him from El Salvador. If he stayed in the gang, he knew he would die. He needed help.

He tore out the pages and hid them inside another assignment, like a message in a bottle. Then he walked up to his teacher’s desk and turned them in.

A week later, Henry was called to the principal’s office to speak with the police officer assigned to the school. In El Salvador, Henry had learned to distrust the police, who often worked for rival gangs or paramilitary death squads. But the officer assured Henry that the Suffolk County police were not like the cops he had known before he sought asylum in the United States. They could connect him to the FBI, which could protect him and move him far from Long Island.

So after a childhood spent in fear, Henry made the first choice he considered truly his own. He decided to help the FBI arrest his fellow gang members.

Henry’s cooperation was a coup for law enforcement. MS-13 was in the midst of a convulsion of violence that claimed 25 lives in Long Island over the past two years.

President Trump had seized on MS-13 as a symbol of the dangers of immigration, referring to parts of Long Island as “bloodstained killing fields.” Police were desperately looking for informants who could help them crack how the gang worked and make arrests. Henry gave them a way in.

Under normal circumstances, Henry’s choice would have been his salvation. By working with the police, he could have escaped the gang and started fresh. But not in the dawning of the Trump era, when every immigrant has become a target and local police in towns like Brentwood have become willing agents in a nationwide campaign of detention and deportation. Without knowing it, Henry had picked the wrong moment to help the authorities.
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