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Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 1h

But they keep saying mean things. Send in the troops!

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 5h

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Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 2h

The founders expressly considered and rejected legislative super majorities. The filibuster has no constitutional cover at all. If Reid had dumped it when he should have we would have a public option under the ACA, and very possibly M4A by now.

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Kraig Peck @kraigpeck.bsky.social · 3h

Thinking big: how to reverse the tide :https://www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-reverse-the-tide?r=somh

How To Reverse The Tide

It's the gap between what's needed and what we have that keeps us up at night.

www.offmessage.net

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Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 2h

The Supreme Court is famously leery of telling other branches how to do their business. It most certainly should weigh in here, but I have no confidence that it will do so given the extremist make up of this court. I sure wish Obama had fought harder for that seat.

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Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 2h

You have a lot more faith in GOP rule following than I do, and I still haven't found the actual house rule. We will see, I mean that we can't really avoid.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 7h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 3h

Interesting. This threatens the American Experiment but you don't think it has anything to do with the topic. I think it has everything to do with it. On what you've posted so far why would a Republican House ever have to seat a Democratic member? That's kind of the point here.

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Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 3h

Here are the house rules.

www.govinfo.gov/app/collecti...

Govinfo

www.govinfo.gov

Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 3h

Not a single person, including you, has cited to a house rule. They have names and numbers. I'm going through them trying to find it, so far without success. If it allows the speaker or a party to overrule a constitutional result, than it's an unconstitutional rule and should be challenged.

Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 3h

Yes. I know. Per Johnson they will be back after Senate Democrats cave on the CR.

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Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 3h

The House was in session on September 30 and refused to recognize the motion. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Republicans refuse to swear in newly elected Democrat, delaying success of Epstein petition

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Republican leaders refused requests from Democrats to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) on Tuesday, saying she will be sworn in when the House re…

thehill.com

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Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry you think it's tiresome. Johnson says he won't seat her until Senate Democrats cave on the CR. That's the situation we're in and I think it demands a very public response.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6h

This is what ice is doing

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 4h

I especially liked the concluding line of that article. "Politically, the optics are brutal: refusing to seat a member for leverage is a gun aimed at the fundamentals of representative democracy."

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Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 4h

Who's Freddy?

Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 4h

I just read that and still see no house rule here, just norms and customs. If the speaker or a party can refuse to seat indefinitely, then that negates a constitutional provision, not a legal result. The House has been in session several times but refused to seat her. Time to bring this to a head.

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 8h

Cartoon by David Horsey, Seattle Times

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Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 4h

A full employment plan for employee plaintiff's lawyers. Complete with attorney fees provisions.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 8h

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 4h

Let me add I did find the controlling statute, which says the Speaker should swear her in. But even the statute does no purport to be the only way, and federal judges have been used many times in many places to swear in new members. If you have found a house rule, please cite me to it.

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Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 4h

What house rule is that? There's a constitutional provision that requires the oath. That's it. The issue would be the cloud of confusion Johnson would raise, but at this point no one is even citing to any house rules. We're two weeks down the road. Doing nothing is not working.

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Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 4h

"Courage and Integrity." Sorry Donnie, that kicks you right out the door!

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Kelley Rinehart @kelleyrinehart.bsky.social · 5h

Dems need to show up with the oath, a federal judge to administer it and a pen for her to sign. Then hand the signed oath to the clerk of the House and she should take her seat.

This is a lot like Obama giving McConnell the power to defeat his SCOTUS nomination by taking no action. C'mon man!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress over two weeks ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in.

Why the delay?

Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

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