US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces

Post by NoMoreNicksLeft » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 4:09 PM UTC

nerdsniper wrote: post #181

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #126

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>If Congress had a full Republican majority during Nixon’s years, he would not have been impeached. That's at best "unclear". Attitudes were different, and there is some evidence of principled intentions even by the Republicans. If I were pressed for an answer, I'd say that the Republicans would have impeached, just weeks later than the Democrats. But, during that era Congress still thought itself coequal to the pres…

> They still defend him to this day Older democratic voters generally do seem to defend him but a growing number of younger democratic voters seem to identify his actions as tantamount to statutory rape, and support his impeachment in principle. The establishment Democratic politicians also generally seem to defend him or at least refuse to condemn his actions, but most of the politicians also lean older. Most people…

Post by parineum » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 4:09 PM UTC

bilekas wrote: post #179

lotsofpulp wrote: post #120

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How do you mitigate when 2/3rd of voters support, at least tacitly, the lawlessness?

I don't know exactly which support level you mean but https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker would paint a different picture. That said, who knows how valid even these numbers are.

Post by zzzeek » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 4:10 PM UTC

fsckboy wrote: post #217

softwaredoug wrote: post #175

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TBH The Right in the US has such a structural advantage, that Congress's silence becomes de-facto acceptance. Congress choosing to not do oversight becomes a de-facto repeal of the law. The only other option is to find someone with standing being harmed and sue. And that will take time to wind through the courts, with not great chances at SCOTUS.

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Post by galangalalgol » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 4:11 PM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #189

softwaredoug wrote: post #175

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TBH The Right in the US has such a structural advantage, that Congress's silence becomes de-facto acceptance. Congress choosing to not do oversight becomes a de-facto repeal of the law. The only other option is to find someone with standing being harmed and sue. And that will take time to wind through the courts, with not great chances at SCOTUS.

> Congress's silence becomes de-facto acceptance. Congress choosing to not do oversight becomes a de-factor repeal of the law. Yes, but why is that surprising? If a majority of any legislature doesn't care to see a law enforced, they could vote to repeal the law anyway. It's only because of the artifice of the filibuster in the U.S. system that there's a meaningful difference between those two things.

Post by mullingitover » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 4:13 PM UTC

thayne wrote: post #204

cheema33 wrote: post #90

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> Congress should get around to impeaching and convicting the president then! I hope you know that Congress has abdicated all of their responsibilities to the president. I don't know if the founders ever saw this coming.

One thing the founders definitely didn't see coming was the two party system, which eventually led to a single party controlling all thee branches of government.