Old, white, Democrat women are racist, too

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I think a more apt title to the thread would be, Old, Whote, Democrat Women are Still Racist.

Their entire patronizing approach to POC is that only they can lift them up from an evil racist society.

. . .that they have a long and storied history of fomenting








Drink!

 

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I'm not going with anything. You asked about the rules, I showed them to you. The Congress has the constitutional right to make its own rules. it's just the way it is.

The Constitution says "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech..." .

You're falsely contending the Constitution also empowers the House to make its own rules which may abridge the freedom of speech, i.e., a House rule can constitutionally exist that impeaches a Representative for simply speaking freely, no matter how offensive, even though the 1st Amendment specifically prohibits it from doing so. You're flat-out championing that House rules supersede the Constitution itself.

To be clear: my point isn't that the House isn't constitutionally empowered to make its own rules. My point is that any rules the House erects for itself MUST FIRST obey the Constitution, i.e., every House rule MUST be totally submissive, in this specific case, to the 1st Amendment.

As Chief Justice Marshall would've proclaimed: A House rule repugnant to the Constitution is void.

 

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The Constitution says "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech..." .

You're falsely contending the Constitution also empowers the House to make its own rules which may abridge the freedom of speech, i.e., a House rule can constitutionally exist that impeaches a Representative for simply speaking freely, no matter how offensive, even though the 1st Amendment specifically prohibits it from doing so. You're flat-out championing that House rules supersede the Constitution itself.

To be clear: my point isn't that the House isn't constitutionally empowered to make its own rules. My point is that any rules the House erects for itself MUST FIRST obey the Constitution, i.e., every House rule MUST be totally submissive, in this specific case, to the 1st Amendment.

As Chief Justice Marshall would've proclaimed: A House rule repugnant to the Constitution is void.

I didn't say anything about the fucking freedom of speech. I said the Senate has a rule that keeps its members from insulting each other. It has stood the test of time and no court has ruled it illegal.

It's been the rule forever and five have been expelled, one way back in the early 1800s, so why hasn't the SCOTUS spoken?

 

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I didn't say anything about the fucking freedom of speech. I said the Senate has a rule that keeps its members from insulting each other. It has stood the test of time and no court has ruled it illegal.

It's been the rule forever and five have been expelled, one way back in the early 1800s, so why hasn't the SCOTUS spoken?

Ah, I see now, you truly have no "fucking" idea what you're yapping about, let alone what I'm posting of. Allow me to alleviate your obvious arrogant ignorance:

Expulsions from Congress

In the entire history of the United States Congress, 20 Members have been expelled: 15 from the Senate and 5 from the House of Representatives (of those, one member's expulsion, William K. Sebastian of Arkansas, was posthumously reversed). Censure has been a much more common form of disciplinary action in Congress over the years, as it requires a much lower threshold of votes to impose.

The great majority of those expelled — 17 members — were removed from office for their support of the Confederacy in the immediate aftermath of secession.[2]

In 1861, after the Civil War had broken out, eleven Senators (including former Vice President and Kentucky Senator John C. Breckinridge) and three Representatives were expelled for supporting the Confederacy.
In 1862, three more Representatives were expelled for supporting the Confederate States: John Bullock Clark and John William Reid of Missouri, and Henry Cornelius Burnett of Kentucky.

There have only been three other expulsions:

In 1797, Senator William Blount of Tennessee was expelled for treason, with charges centering on a plan to incite the Creek and Cherokee to aid the British in conquering the Spanish territory of West Florida. Blount remains the only Senator to be expelled for a reason other than supporting the Confederacy.
In 1980 Representative Michael Myers of Pennsylvania was expelled for bribes in connection with the Abscam scandal.
In 2002, Representative Jim Traficant of Ohio was expelled after he was convicted on numerous counts of bribery, racketeering, and tax evasion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_from_the_United_States_Congress

- support of the Confederacy
- treason
- bribes
- bribery, racketeering, tax evasion

A total of 20 members of Congress have been expelled throughout U.S. history, yet not a single one of them expelled for "insulting" another member, let alone the "five" you falsely cite. Do you write for CNN?