President Donald Trump has hinted at the possibility of somehow serving a third term in office.
A Republican House member introduced a resolution to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow President Donald Trump — and any other future president — to be elected to serve a third term.
Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee introduced the measure days after Trump was sworn in for a second non-consecutive term in the White House.
The 22nd Amendment currently bars anyone from being elected to more than two terms.
« Trump’s destruction of long-standing clemency norms is already having numerous corrosive effects on democracy. It undermines public trust in government. It undercuts the fair and impartial administration of justice. And it licenses public officials to place their own personal and financial interests ahead of the interests of the people they were elected to serve, just as Donald Trump is doing at the very top. To him, of course, that’s not a problem; it’s the goal. »
— Liz Oyer, Justice Department official during the Biden administration, writing at The Atlantic. (archived)
Trump is using pardons for his political, financial, and personal gratification. If the United States survives his misrule, it will require several amendments to the US Constitution. One is a limit on pardons. What used to be taken for granted must instead be etched in stone.
BTW, Trump's pardons are not harmless to the victims of the criminals he's let off the hook.
Fraudster’s Victims Are Seething After Trump Commuted His Sentence
The US has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world. You are 3x more likely to die in the US due to pregnancy and childbirth complications than in any other rich nation.
The risk is twice as high for girls under age 14, and yet they are denied abortions until they are literally dying, despite the 62% increase in death rate in states with abortion restrictions.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill into law Wednesday repealing a 1931 aboriton that criminalized the procedure.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill Wednesday repealing the state's nearly century-old abortion ban.
Last month, the state's House and Senate passed HB 4006, a single-sentence bill, which revokes the 1931 law that criminalized abortion.
Specifically, the bill repealed Section 750.14, which makes it a felony -- punishable by up to four years in prison and/or a fine of up to $5,000 -- to administer drugs that induce a miscarriage unless the mother's life is in danger.
It also repealed Section 750.15, which makes it a misdemeanor to advertise, publish or sell "any pills, powder, drugs or combination of drugs" that can cause an abortion.
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer, questions remained about whether or not the 1931 law would be put back in place...
A Michigan state judge ruled in September that the ban is unconstitutional, barring any state prosecutors from enforcing it.
Two months later, in the November mid-term elections, Michiganders voted in favor of a constitutional amendment that would add protections for reproductive rights...
The amendment defines reproductive freedom as "the right to make and effectuate decisions about all matters relating to pregnancy, including but not limited to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion care, miscarriage management and infertility care." ...
Whitmer has openly expressed her support for abortion access in and out of Michigan and signed an executive order in July refusing to extradite women who come to Michigan from other states seeking abortion and refusing to extradite providers for offering the procedure.
"In November, Michiganders sent a clear message: we deserve to make our own decisions about own bodies," Whitmer said in a statement provided to ABC News. "Today, we are coming together to repeal our extreme 1931 law banning abortion without exceptions for rape or incest and criminalizing nurses and doctors for doing their jobs."
Former NY Governor Alfred E. Smith welcomes Carrie Chapman Catt, women's suffrage leader, on her triumphal return from Tennessee, August 27, 1920. Tennessee was the last state to ratify the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. Miss Catt carries a bouquet of blue and yellow flowers, colors of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association.
Letter from the President of Roosevelt Worsted Mills to Representative George S. Graham against the Child Labor Amendment
Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of RepresentativesSeries: Bill Files of the Committee on the JudiciaryFile Unit: Papers Accompanying Specific Bills and Resolutions of the Committee on the Judiciary from the 68th Congress
[[Letterhead]]
ROOSEVELT WORSTED MILLS
WORSTED YARN SPINNERS
WEAVING YARNS 2016 NAUDAIN STREET KNITTING YARNS
PHILADELPHIA, [[end of letterhead]] April 8, 1924
[[handwritten in blue]] H Res 184
Hon. George S. Graham,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
We wish to express to you our heartiest congratulation and deep appreciation of your courage and statesmanship as revealed in your report in opposition to the proposed Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution.
We hope that this report will be accorded wide publicity and that it will help to stop the vicious tendency, lately developed, in trying to cure every evil by a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Alright so this week's referendum in Ireland is kind of Devious. We're being told we're voting for feminism when we're actually absolving the state of a duty of care. This is the care referendum, not the family one. My stance is Yes for families, No for care.
Right now our constitution states that "The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home.”
The proposed amendment states "The State recognises that the provision of care, by members of a family to one another by reason of the bonds that exist among them, gives to Society a support without which the common good cannot be achieved, and shall strive to support such provision.”
So under the new amendment, the state is under no obligation to ensure a caregiver has the economic freedom and security to choose whether or not to work, and in fact shifts the burden of care entirely onto families. The State is under no obligation to provide "care" to infants, or, as advocacy groups have pointed out, disabled people, instead shifting that burden entirely to families, whom the state is no longer under any obligation to ensure have the economic freedom and security to become fulltime caregivers.
Honestly, its kind of Devious pairing this with the amendment extending the definition of families, the care amendment has sort of been buried by the uncontroversial extension of protections to unconventional family units not centered on marriage. Everything is pointing to "vote yes for families" and what little I've seen of the care amendment is couching it as the simple removal of sexist language. On March 8th no less!
So, any Irish people voting on Friday, Vote no on the care amendment!
