Unanimous consent isn't bending the rules. It's unanimous consent. If any Senator objects, the rule must be followed. Name a single instance of bending the rules or just admit that you were in error.
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Unanimous consent isn't bending the rules. It's unanimous consent. If any Senator objects, the rule must be followed. Name a single instance of bending the rules or just admit that you were in error.
Damo - Do us all a favor and just quit making shit up as you go along or at least link to the dubious legal analysis on which you are relying.
Kirk is the senator until his successor is sworn in or he resigns. Or is it your position that all legislation passed between election day and the swearing in of a new Congress some two months later is unconstitutional?
Kirk is toast as of tomorrow morning. That's Mass law in a special election.
Nigel quit whining and "smell the defeat". Who shives a git?
Kirk is done by all intents and purposes. The "Teddy Kennedy's seat" is now back in the hands of the people to decide and decide they did. Finally the Kennedy stranglehold has lost it's grip!
It would depend on if they were appointed or elected. In this case the law is about an appointed temporary Senator who is no longer a Senator once a qualified person is elected. Since Coakley conceded, he is elected. Had Kirk been elected Mass. law does not render his position moot on the election of a qualified person to hold the office.
And quit crying. You are solely upset because your side lost a big one tonight and it is running out of excuses for the short coat tails of the President. I'll keep saying stuff that makes you angry because it is fun.
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He's not elected until the results are certified. It's fairly simple and straight-forward. Not that it matters. The candy-asses in the Senate won't do anything anyway.
And I'm not surprised that you'll keep saying stuff that isn't true. That's your basic M.O. Fringe righty says something stupid, you repeat it, I say it's wrong and fringe righties shouldn't be listened to, you say I'm wrong, a bunch of righty jackasses join in with you and say I got pwned, three days later we find out I was right. Rinse. Repeat.
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oh the irony....you have yet to present any legal cites for your analysis....
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That isn't true, he is elected right now. That it isn't "certified" doesn't change reality. Of course, you and I agree that they won't do anything at all in the Senate.
And you are misleading the readers... You have yet to be "proven" right on anything.
oh the irony....you have yet to present any legal cites for your analysis....
Start with M.G.L. c. 145. The relevant sections relate to the examination and certification of records.
Yes, not one yet.
Yes, it is. Of course with the power to uphold or bend the law being in the hands of the powers that be, all democrats...it's sure to be misconstrued and blocked.
An election is not complete until the ballots are counted, transmitted to the Secretary and certified. That cannot happen for at least 15 days. At this point, the results of the election are unofficial. Until they are official, he hasn't been elected.
And I note that you disregarded my observation on laws passed by Congress after an election but before a new Congress is sworn in. Are all laws passed in those intervening two months unconstitutional?
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She concedded, so what is the outcome of the count going to change??
Tell that to Niki Tsongas. There is precedent in this state itself... pre-certification she and Brown were both elected.