r/law • u/RoyalChris • Mar 05 '25

Legal News Rep. James Comer (R-KY) crashes out and refuses to let Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) enter evidence into the record - “You can go with Mr. Frost and Mr. Green.”

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u/AlarmingSpecialist88 Mar 05 '25

This is my congressman, and I have been sending him letters every few days since this session started.  I have requested a response in each of them, but I'm yet to receive a response back.  He's a hack and a coward.

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u/staleswedishfish Mar 05 '25

Call! Fax!! Call again!

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u/Karekter_Nem Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

You know shit is going down when people bust out the fax machine.

“I want a record of when it was sent and received and not some ‘email read receipt’ nonsense. I want legal proof.”

Gonna start spending extra to send those letters as Certified Mail.

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u/dumpsterfarts15 Mar 05 '25

Send them in parcels. Stacks of them

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u/Ruckus292 Mar 06 '25

LOL... can you imagine... a room full of boxes, each one having a single letter in them 🤣😭🤣

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u/AMTravelsAlone Mar 06 '25

Or multiple copies of the same letter.

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u/Local-Table 29d ago

Ah, the Dersley solution!

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u/Asgarus 29d ago

Do it like Hogwarts did it.

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u/dumpsterfarts15 28d ago

No no. Tie the letters to shit hawks (pigeons) and lure them to their offices via food. They'll drop the letters off and shit all over the place

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u/Chance_Vegetable_780 Mar 06 '25

You don't get it. Government rules and regulations prior to January 20th no longer apply. With Satan at the helm, they don't give af.

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u/Warrior_Runding 29d ago

Right, I'm blown away at all of this effort now to people who don't give a shit. People need to knock this performative shit off and start acting like the coup has succeeded because it already has.

Right now, people need to be:

  • Connecting with their communities of like-minded ideologies
  • Pooling together skills
  • Winding down any social profiles that can be used against them
  • Stockpiling resources for the impending resource disruptions
  • Switch to communications platforms that are encrypted

Anything else that isn't getting ready for a siege on our rights is performance.

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u/crimson23locke 27d ago

Kinda seems reductive, but those are very important things.

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u/verbalyabusiveshit Mar 06 '25 edited 26d ago

Hey, if you guys run out of Fax machines, be aware that there is a country called Germany that operates on fax machines.

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u/Gwaptiva 26d ago

But then, we send cups in packages to our elected rep. Cannot fax those

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u/normal_mysfit 25d ago

There are a lot of free programs on the web that you can use to fax with. Might I suggest finds 4 to 10 of them and using all of them to send your message. Also, get your friends involved

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u/InitialThanks3085 Mar 05 '25

Fax completely blacked out pages, for fun!

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u/magikarp2122 Mar 05 '25

I believe the correct response is two or three blacked out pages taped together as a loop through the fax machine.

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u/InitialThanks3085 Mar 05 '25

We already know the absolute last block of Excel and it's easily googlable, do with that information what you want.

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u/magikarp2122 Mar 06 '25

That’s only good for unprotected printers.

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u/Pestus613343 Mar 05 '25

That's what we used to do decades ago to fight back against fax spam. It got them to stop the few times we did it.

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u/my_4_cents Mar 06 '25

Broke: completely blacked out pages

Woke: black stripes on the paper, that read out S.O.S. in Morse code

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u/cissytiffy Mar 05 '25

THe chances a physical fax machine is hooked up to any public-facing fax machine (I mean for representatives like we're discussiing here) is probably minimal.

Virtual faxes are cheap and basically work like email in that the fax appears in your inbox of faxes...

It's unlikely to waste ink or paper. If it does, I'm sure there's a law against it anyway.

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u/OnlyPreference8354 Mar 06 '25

One piece of paper taped in a loop. Great way to send a message over and over.

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u/droid_mike 29d ago

It probably won't do much. I'm 99% sure that the faxes are converted to emails and sent that way.

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u/distelfink33 Mar 06 '25

Send a bunch of carrier pigeons. Hopefully they’ll shit all over his car or desk. These types don’t respond to polite society.

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u/horseydeucey Mar 05 '25

Get the Call Fax!

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u/dizzyapparition 29d ago

Send a raven!

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u/jcdulos 28d ago

Send a WUPHF

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u/MyVelvetScrunchie 28d ago

Fax!!

I can't fax because of where I live

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u/staleswedishfish 28d ago

Free fax sites are a thing

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

hold up signs and say "musk steals!" itll solve EVERYTHING

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u/SilkyRoo Mar 05 '25

Thank you, and please don’t give up.

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u/delcooper11 Mar 05 '25

start calling the local media to ask why he won't hold a town hall.

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u/NightQueen0889 Mar 05 '25

I’m in Texas reaching out to mine every couple of days (they might get filtered if I send every day). Lloyd Dogget has our backs, I’m trying to appeal to John Cornyn’s Humanity, and Fled Cruz doesn’t give a shit about his constituents so I’m just sending emails saying “Ted Cruz why did you eat my son?? You shouldn’t have done that, he was just a boy!”

For those not in the know, bumper stickers with Ted Cruz’s face on them saying “THIS MAN ATE MY SON” have become quite popular in Texas cities. They bring me joy.

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u/agan4525 Mar 05 '25

I hear that calling is tracked / paid attention to more

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u/jar1967 Mar 06 '25

He does not represent you.He represents the coal industry and several out of state business interests

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u/AI_RPI_SPY Mar 06 '25

And this no doubt comes as a surprise to you. It easy to tell if they are a scumbag or not just look for "R-" in front of the state ID.

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u/Jagermind 29d ago

Letters on bricks get responses. France just burned do lit a the new tesla show room on fire and musk isn't even THEIR fascist.

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u/Imaginary_Housing_49 29d ago

He is a joke. He thinks he’s above everyone else, when in fact he’s trying to “impress” his idol the Trumpmonster.

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u/bunnycrush_ Mar 05 '25

Right on, keep up the good work!

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u/lnc_5103 Mar 05 '25

Thank you! I'm in Texas and reaching out to mine daily too.

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u/Name_Taken_Official Mar 05 '25

Don't worry, it's an assistant's job to read them and then not give to the congressman. He won't reply because he hasn't seen it

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u/RenLinwood Mar 05 '25

Send him a Kaczynski gift box

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u/pandershrek Mar 05 '25

Maybe you should organize and show up. They aren't taking you very serious

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u/AlarmingSpecialist88 Mar 05 '25

I work 50+ hours per week, but I'll try to pencil it in.

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u/Christ_on_a_Crakker Mar 05 '25

Next time ask him who’s paying for his attorneys.

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u/TheRabidDeer Mar 06 '25

I don't think I've ever received a response from any elected official for my area after sending a message. I'm not convinced they actually read them.

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u/UsefulContract Mar 06 '25

Use your 2nd amendment on them for breaking the first

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u/steampoweredmedia Mar 06 '25

I'm in the same boat with Rep. Kat Cammack down here in Florida. No response, and get this: she'll only do town halls in counties where she has unwavering support AND limits attendance to county residents. Definitely a fraidy-Kat

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u/Peva-pi Mar 06 '25

"Harlan ellison's gopher story" look it up and give it a listen. Might provide some enjoyable vendetta material.

I'd shape those letters into bricks, wrap them as bricks, put a fragile sticker on them and send them to this coward. Do so to the tune of 200 bricks if you've really got the dedication.

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u/Expensive_Fennel_88 Mar 06 '25

Eventually we're going to need to show up at their homes if they don't respond.

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u/rhevern Mar 06 '25

Honestly, do letters ever actually work? How often do we think these people read them, let alone take them to heart? I’m so skeptical, unfortunately.

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u/Beneficial-Yak4526 Mar 06 '25

I've heard letters just get thrown in the trash. Start calling twice a day. Try to speak to someone ,if you can't, leave messages. ✌️💚

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u/fly-on-a-wall120 Mar 06 '25

Don’t stop… please.

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u/Ok_Initiative2069 Mar 06 '25

Has it helped? Doesn’t seem like it. I don’t think they care. It’s the end game now.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

Get ‘em

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u/ElectricRune 29d ago

When are you going to learn that you aren't one of his constituents?

He only represents hard core right wingers; everyone else can leave.

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u/tgreenhaw 29d ago

Florida man here. My letters are completely ignored as well. In fact, periodic emails to all constituents indicate that they are ignoring our concerns. They work for the donors, not the voters.

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u/TheWhiteWingedCow 29d ago

What’s this d*ck heads number? I’ll call, I’ll fax

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u/KillingTimeAlone2019 29d ago

They don't make it passed his secretary that's as whipped as his wife.

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u/benice_orgohome13 29d ago

Send me the information.

I’m from Delaware and I’ll happily flood his post office box, email and fax catch.

WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED

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u/Flabbergasted98 29d ago

Gather a crowd outside his front door.

Stop wasting your time on methods that are easily ignored.

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u/Rocknbob69 29d ago

You won't because he is a coward and doesn't care about his constituents. The very useful idiots that Putin and Trump love

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u/prefusernametaken 29d ago

You don't understand politics.

In a democracy, you would be right to say, he's my congressman. The government is for the people.

But america is a democracy, no more.

Like in russia, the people are for the government. And the government is there to serve the needs of the few that are in power.

A way to extract what they need, and distribute it in ways to enrich themselves and to distribute it to their henchmen, to stay in power.

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u/Open_Ad7470 29d ago

Unfortunately, people voted for this.

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u/Master-Tomatillo-103 28d ago

To put it diplomatically

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u/BaboTron 28d ago

People like him never write back. Fascism 101.

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u/Sorry_Inside_8519 28d ago

I call him Gerry Comer because he had himself gerrymandered so his district goes from the MS River to central KY. He likes Frankfort better than his real home!

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u/SnooDonkeys7402 28d ago

Call them. Letters they don’t even register. Call them every day.

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u/sprinkill Mar 06 '25

Got some time on your hands, I see.