I don't know the legal requirements but he should be removed for dereliction of duty. However that should go up the chain of command to the top.
Well yeah, but that's the exact opposite of what happened.
The Constitution clearly requires high crimes and misdemeanors. And while there's still some debate over what exactly that means, pretty much all legal scholars would contend that it needs to be something more concrete than accusations of "dereliction of duty." You could apply that vagueness to anything.
The Republicans have introduced legislation to help secure the border before which the democrats fought. I think the last was an amendment by Ted Cruz.
That was almost a year ago. And it died in the Senate because it was just a rammed through partisan bill. The Senate has no obligation to rubber stamp laws they think are shit. That's why you saw them actually reach across the aisle and make a compromise. That's how good governance works.
What you want is for all of Congress to follow the whims of a small handful of trump ball-lickers. Why would they? That's not what their constituents want. I know you guys think that the world must bend to your will, even if you're in a clear minority, but that's not how our government was designed to work.
Then you had creepy Joe by a stroke of the pen remove all the one Trump put in place.
Why would the President keep the executive orders of the previous one in place, when he doesn't agree with them? This is the same line of reasoning you guys do for everything. Do exactly what we want, or we'll sabotage everything.
And it's not like Trump's executive orders were effective. We had record setting illegal immigration under Trump, with numbers that would have been even worse had he not had the benefit of a global pandemic keeping some of those numbers down.
All he needs to do us use that pen to put more in place. That's not going to happen because his handlers don't want it.
No. Biden cannot just do, by executive order, the things that were listed in the bill republicans refused to consider. For instance, that $20 billion the Border Patrol said they could really use, can only be authorized by Congress.
And ICE just announced today that without additional funding, they may be forced to conduct mass releases of people in detention because they simply don't have the funds to keep holding them.
I do think the Republicans in congress need to get off their ass and present a bill to secure the border and end the reason to try and come here ileagly.
The democrats will of course never pass or even allow a vote on it.
Democrats have already shown that they are willing to vote on a bill. House democrats agree with what the Senate sent over. Now will those same democrats vote for a shitty MAGA bill? Probably not. But if you're confidant it's what the people want, then you propose something and then run against the democrat objection.
But I don't know why we are being dishonest about the reason for republican inaction here. The right has been very clear that they won't do anything on the border because Trump wants to run on it. But republicans have already cried that this is an imminent threat that has to be addressed NOW.
So once again, Trump has put them in an impossible position. They can't do anything without going against their orange god, but they can't be seen as doing nothing since they made such a big fuss. So we're doing this retarded dance were republicans just move the goal posts to forever claim whatever's offered is not enough, all while doing nothing of their own. First, you demanded that any funding for Ukraine be tied to a border deal. Then you reject one that has both. Then you reject a stand alone bill for Ukraine funding because, wait for it, it doesn't contain a border deal.
Just take a look around you. No one, except a tiny corner of the far right world, is applauding this. Everyone else is laughing.
