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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 4742753" data-attributes="member: 1940"><h3><a href="https://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/1476029/mcclintock-argues-against-invoking-25th-amendment.html" target="_blank">McClintock Argues Against Invoking 25th Amendment</a></h3>Last week, the majority argued the President tried to abuse the Constitution to overturn the votes of the Electoral College.&nbsp; He asserted no direct power; rather, he urged the Vice-President and Congress to do so.&nbsp; Many of us declined his bad advice.Yet this week, the majority is directly asserting power to misuse the 25th Amendment in a manner that overturns the votes of the previous Electoral College.&nbsp; Don’t they see that they are committing directly the very same offense they accuse the President of committing indirectly?Every act we take builds a precedent for future acts. Once Congress asserts a new role as armchair psychiatrists and a new power to equate intemperate speech with functional disability, the most important pillars in our government – stability, the rule of law, and the separation of powers – will fracture.&nbsp; It won’t affect this President, but it will stalk future Presidents from this day forward.[MEDIA=youtube]II5rMpcr03k[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tonyexpress, post: 4742753, member: 1940"] [HEADING=2][URL='https://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/1476029/mcclintock-argues-against-invoking-25th-amendment.html'][SIZE=5]McClintock Argues Against Invoking 25th Amendment[/SIZE][/URL][/HEADING] Last week, the majority argued the President tried to abuse the Constitution to overturn the votes of the Electoral College. He asserted no direct power; rather, he urged the Vice-President and Congress to do so. Many of us declined his bad advice. Yet this week, the majority is directly asserting power to misuse the 25th Amendment in a manner that overturns the votes of the previous Electoral College. Don’t they see that they are committing directly the very same offense they accuse the President of committing indirectly? [B]Every act we take builds a precedent for future acts. [/B] [B]Once Congress asserts a new role as armchair psychiatrists and a new power to equate intemperate speech with functional disability, the most important pillars in our government – stability, the rule of law, and the separation of powers – will fracture. It won’t affect this President, but it will stalk future Presidents from this day forward.[/B] [MEDIA=youtube]II5rMpcr03k[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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