Could Joe Biden use his remaining time as president of the US to do away with presidential pardons?
Could Joe Biden use his remaining time as president of the US to do away with presidential pardons?
Not sure if he has the power to do that, or if he could do it but not make it permanent. But if he can, he really should...
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not sure but the first thing I'd recommend changing is the first past the post voting system
The president doesn't control that. The federal government doesn't even control that.
That's a state by state situation.
Correct:
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
US Constitution, Article 1, Section 4
Technically there's no requirement that any of the citizens of a state be allowed to vote in their state's elections.
A guy I know argues that a ‘better system’ would that the individual shouldn’t be able to vote in higher tier elections. The individual should be able to vote for their local reps. Local reps vote for the fewer regional/county reps, those vote for state, and state then vote for congressional, who then vote and elect the president.
But, if you think Russian (or enemy nation states) were able to infiltrate and sway the 2024 presidential election across 130 million voters… how easy do you think it’d be to do the same across Congress? Hell, they’ve already infiltrated that.
Alaska and Maine already have ranked choice iirc
I seem to recall that Alaska did have RCV, but then went back to the shitty way.
That's on the ballot this year. And looks like at this moment the tally is 120k/125k for/against keeping RCV with 75% of the vote counted, so to close to call at the moment.
I saw some campaign points against it, and they said "it's too confusing". Political messages these days basically rely upon people being stupid and lazy.