Because they don’t expect anything to happen.
Seriously the “do nothing congress” was miles better than our current one.
[C-SPAN] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Articles of Impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito (13:37)
Submitted 4 months ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to videos@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KZy3NSqnkg
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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 months ago
SpaceBishop@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
the “do nothing congress” was miles better
This sentiment is wrong. Making some effort to correct course should be a bare minimum. Accepting the broken system as irreversibly corrupt and doing nothing about it is objectively worse than using the institutions as they are intended. Even if these impeachments go nowhere, let it excite voters to turn out.
If you show up and vote for the party that actually wants to accomplish something, here is an example of what can be done. If you want to see checks and balances in action, vote for the party that is willing to make it happen.
With all the talk of the corruption of the most powerful court in the country, here is what the process looks like to fix it.
Conversely, if you just want to lie down and allow the court to continue to tear down the other “co-equal” branches of government, and regress our rights in an overtly corrupt way, then go ahead and sit back down. Do what you seem to prefer our elected leaders do: Shut up and fuck off. Find another place to commiserate with other self defeated losers.
hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
I think you’re misunderstanding the comment you replied to.
The “do nothing congress” was a specific Congress back in the 40s — not a Congress that literally does nothing.
The do nothing Congress passed 906 bills. I believe the current congress has passed something like 68 three-quarters of the way through. That’s the comparison the commenter was making.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Laying out the charges clearly and concisely. alito and thomas have been corrupted, and should be removed. They purposefully withheld disclosures of lavish gifts from billionaires with matters before the court. They accepted gifts from people, failed to recuse themselves from cases those people were involved with, and ruled in their favor, benefiting both them and their benefactors financially. This establishes a clear quid-pro-quo. They are corrupt, remove them.
AmidFuror@fedia.io 4 months ago
The subject don't agree with the verb.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 months ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Maybe they figured with all those names she’s worthy of being a plural.
absentbird@lemm.ee 4 months ago
1337 timestamp.
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wewt
Corigan@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Love when elected officials don’t show up why is it the chairs are almost always all empty
bassomitron@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Because we’re living through the collapse of the American empire where the majority of politicians are blatantly corrupt and no longer care about hiding it.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Nah, we’re about to see the beginning of the American empire.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 months ago
To be fair they should just work most of their time from home on zoom and stay in their own states so they can be closer to their constituents. Going to DC is great and necessary but with modern technology they should be way closer to their constituents than they are. That’s just my opinion though and what do I know.
neclimdul@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s actually even simpler. The whole building has wired feeds of the floor. So you can work from your office in the building or nearby, watch everything, and only come to the floor to vote.
Themadbeagle@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I agree with the idea, but I highly doubt this is why they are not there in practice. I could be wrong as this is just purely speculative on my part, but I don’t have a lot of faith in most US politicians.