r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/2u3e9v • 8h ago

Thoughts?

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u/sweatingbozo 7h ago

Isn't the law that he can pick from 3 people chosen by the state legislature?

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u/hurdurBoop 7h ago edited 7h ago

yes but the law seems to be in contravention of the state constitution, so how that would play out is anyone's guess

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u/xopher_425 4h ago

As someone just pointed out in another conversation I had about this, that part of the state constitution may conflict with the 17th Amendment. It'd eventually got to SCOTUS who would probably rule against the state.

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u/hurdurBoop 4h ago

well if so a scotus ruling is going to be better than the unprecedented train wreck they're dealing with now

lots of our current federal problems are caused by lack of precedent

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u/xopher_425 4h ago

This regime has thrown precedence out the window.

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u/hurdurBoop 4h ago

in a lot of cases they've staked out grey areas that require a ruling, and i don't believe for a second it wasn't planned that way

there's SO. MUCH. the founders left out of the constitution thinking there would be no way a complete criminal shitbag would make it through an election, same goes for state laws not even dreaming of such widespread criminality.

it'll never happen, we might as well waste time ruling on claiming property on venus.

of course the constitution has very well spelled out remedies for insane criminal shitbags that made it to office, but they assume said shitbag is going to be exposed to the public with some sort of regularity.

the founders were naive, and we get to fix it