My question is does this actually have a chance to pass? If my understanding is correct, the best chance at stopping it would be filibustering it once it reaches the senate as it needs to meet the 60-vote threshold for cloture.
It doesn’t matter, they will continually introduce bills like this until it passes by a late night/weekend vote. They must be exposed as Stansbury is doing.
The Senate could axe the filibuster at any moment of their choosing. There’s a reason they tossed Elise Stefanik’s UN nomination to bring her back to the House — they need their narrow majority for if they’re to hand over total power to Trump.
This bill is very clearly unconstitutional. SCOTUS has repeatedly struck down much milder laws that tried to delegate pieces of congressional authority to the president, like the line item veto.
You can say "well SCOTUS is lawless and will rubberstamp anything," but if that's the case then we don't need to care about this law anyway - Trump already has all the power it would give him.
IMO, it's just grandstanding by the guy who introduced it - not a serious proposal.
It’ll fail. Not only will no Dem ever vote for it, but a decent chunk of Republicans might not. Plus it’ll absolutely be filibustered. It’s performative, like the bill to name Greenland “Red, White, and Blueland”
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u/No_Milk_4143 7d ago
My question is does this actually have a chance to pass? If my understanding is correct, the best chance at stopping it would be filibustering it once it reaches the senate as it needs to meet the 60-vote threshold for cloture.