AOC Has A Warning For Trump Officials: ‘So Many Criminals In This Administration’
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“We have to follow wherever the evidence takes us,” she told CNN.

US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat, New York) isn’t fazed by Congress’ failure to move forward with the impeachment of Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.

From her perspective, Democrats have almost too many people to investigate once they gain control of Congress in January.

“There are so many criminals in this administration, it’s hard to figure out who should be, you know, the order of operations,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju on Tuesday.

“There are going to be many, many, many investigations,” she added. “I imagine many subpoenas, and we have to follow wherever the evidence takes us.”

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact will make the EC follow the popular vote

    No it won’t.

    States with an opposition majority can simply exit the Compact. SCOTUS can rule the Compact invalid as soon as it becomes a hinge point for a presidential contest. State parties can send up electors that refuse to abide by the compact’s accords.

    The only real solution is abolition. Any relic of the system that remains is a loaded gun left in the hands of a cynical bureaucracy.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      States with an opposition majority can simply exit the Compact.

      They can’t just simply exit. They’ll need to pass a new bill to exit, at minimum.

      SCOTUS can rule the Compact invalid as soon as it becomes a hinge point for a presidential contest.

      This is potentially true. It seems constitutionally sound from SC precedence, but it’s not like the current SC cares about that. Hopefully the court gets repaired before they have the chance to shoot it down.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        Hopefully the court gets repaired before they have the chance to shoot it down.

        You’d need a Democrat in the White House to do that. At that point, there’s no longer pressure to reform the EC.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          2 hours ago

          Why is there no pressure to reform the EC then? Are we not holding any more elections after that?

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            59 minutes ago

            Why is there no pressure to reform the EC then?

            There’s plenty of pressure. Just not in the direction you’d prefer.

            The GOP doesn’t have one “master plan” to rig the electoral college. Instead, lawmakers are considering a couple of different versions of a plan that would tie electoral votes to congressional districts.

            This was an underreported part of Project 2025, which lead off with a new wave of unscheduled redistricting in red states… leading to the Dummymander of 2026.

            There was also the attempt, in 2020, to award EC votes by state legislative fiat rather than statewide popular vote.

            But the bottom line is that when you’re winning (and Republicans have had a built in EC / Senate advantage since 1968, thanks to their popularity in smaller rural states) there’s no big incentive to change the rules.

            And when you’re losing, there’s no opportunity to change them.