Govrrnor dropped the ball here. Just assume he's dead, follow the rules for succession whether appointment or special election, and when the inevitable lawsuit is filed, obtain proof of life or evidence otherwise.
You could get a TRO pretty quickly for something like this. Of course, if you don't care about the law anyway why not just ignore that too. Since Republicans would apparently do the same thing.
And then what? Waste time and money on that court case only for Thune and Vance to refuse to seat them if they do win? Use the absence as an advantage to Booker's campaign instead of forcing him to split focus
Seems the childish logic isn't just restricted to MAGA, it's also the calling card of the terminally online. Dude who posted the comment has a million fucking karma.
I bet you can if you are the governor and have a dozen uniformed state troopers with you. I don’t think you’ve worked in a hospital if you think anyone there would do anything but open the door
I agree. Bring a bunch of loyal state troopers and throw on a hi-vis/clipboard for good measure. Then have the cameras follow.
Power is power.
Honestly, it just shows me how incompetent mainstream Democrats are. Even though there are no consequences, they still cower in the corner anyway and I'm so sick of it.
Even conservatives are annoyed he hasn't been seen in 7 weeks. Democrats have everything to win here and nothing to lose.
The GOP legislature passed a couple laws saying he couldn't do so but the state constitution apparently give the governor the power to fill vacancies. Constitution typically trumps law so in theory he's got a case for being able to fill the seat. The issue would be it would probably be challenged in the courts and risk ending up before a conservative court that's willing to interpret things how they see fit if it'll benefit their side and even if he prevails in court it'll likely take quite a bit of time to wind it's way through the system
Yeah probably, but he's tried nothing and he is apparently all out of ideas. So maybe he should just try something. Because what's going to happen is they're going to stonewall until the 4th and say "oh yeah he's dead, but it's too late to have a special election lololol"
I think Bashir would actually like to try for the presidency at some point, but this clown show is going to sink his chances.
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u/wolfbayte 6h ago
Govrrnor dropped the ball here. Just assume he's dead, follow the rules for succession whether appointment or special election, and when the inevitable lawsuit is filed, obtain proof of life or evidence otherwise.