President Joe Biden - Kamala Harris Administration

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#59,130
hog88 said:
The way I understand it is everyone that accepts a pardon can no longer plead the 5th on questions related to the pardoned crimes so congressional hearings should be interesting.
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Perhaps you are to young to remember Patty Hearst or F Lee Bailey. During Patty's trial Bailey had her plea "I cannot recall" dozens of times.
 
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#59,134
LouderVol said:
the pardons are one thing. I am interested in the Amendment thing.

so it WAS a bill going through the proper channels back in the 70s, but never had enough support from the states to get ratified as an actual amendment.
very very very recently Virginia said they would support this. but I haven't seen an actual law/bill saying they actually ratified it, just that they supported ratifying it.
apparently there is no actual limit on how long the ratification process can take.
so the Dems are arguing that Virginia changing its mind makes it official.
but they are also saying that the 5 states who no longer support it, can't change their mind. pointing out that states can't individually de-ratify an amendment. they leave out that the amendment means its actually been ratified for the whole nation. this was never ratified on a national level.

apparently now its in the hands of the National Archives to see if it can go through? I figured the SC would weigh in, but maybe that's later.

they are creating a huge, and as far as I know unprecedented, change to the way we work with the Constitution.
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There was definitely a deadline:

A seven-year, 1979, deadline was included with the legislation by Congress. A simple majority of Congress later extended the deadline to 1982. Both deadlines passed with the ERA three short of the necessary 38 states for ratification.
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en.wikipedia.org

Equal Rights Amendment - Wikipedia

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They'd have to start the process all over again
 
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Sea Ray said:
If there's nothing there then show us in court. Biden is removing the ability of right wingers to prove their claims. You're waving the white flag. Now you've got nothing to stand on when far right wingers make claims about these folks
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Ok


Oh wait. I have facts. REAL facts. Not social media manipulated bull crap.
 
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