Monday, January 27, 2025

ELECTED REPREHENSIBLES

‘We Have to Act’: Taxpayers Suing Congressmembers for Funding Genocide Speak Out
(Marjorie Cohn / Truthout at ScheerPost.com)
January 4, 2025

"On December 19, more than 500 federal taxpayers from 10 northern California counties filed an unprecedented class-action lawsuit against their congressional representatives. Seth Donnelly et. al. v. Mike Thompson, and Jared Huffman charges that the defendants — two Democratic congressmembers — illegally abused their tax and spend authority on April 20, 2024, when they voted for the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, which authorized $26.38 billion in military aid to Israel.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, alleges that Thompson and Huffman violated the U.S. Constitution, the Genocide Convention and several U.S. laws." 

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 I have no recollection of an elected representative in the U.S.A representing me even slightly as their constituent. The few from other districts that might have come close are dead or have been purged by electoral shenanigans.

The list of electoral shenanigans began at the beginning and continues to grow, they're as American as apple pie. But that's grist for another post.

I am reasonably confident that the bought and paid for members of Congress would not remain in office if the standards laid out in The Constitution were applied. No need to consult legal experts on constitutional law regarding the nuances of obscure passages in the "sacred" document, just follow the money.

Somehow the billions of dollars spent by lobbyists to elect and later influence the clown car we call Congress, hasn't reached a level that might define that massive influx of cash and perks... a bribe. A bribe according to the seemingly most holy document next to the scriptures, stipulates that political officers who accept a bribe must be removed from office. I guess that will happen after the Second Coming.

FYI

Constitution of the United States
Article II
Section 4


The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

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