On December 21, the plaintiffs in Tedards v Ducey filed this Amended Complaint. The original Complaint charged that Arizona must permit a special U.S. Senate election to fill John McCain’s seat that is held earlier than November 2020 (McCain died in August 2018). The new Complaint repeats this claim, but it also challenges the state law that says the Governor, when appointing a new U.S. Senator, must appoint someone who is a member of the same party as the Senator being replaced. The Complaint says this is an additional qualification, and states cannot add to the qualifications for service in Congress that are not listed in the Constitution. The new Complaint also points out that Governor Doug Ducey did just appoint a second Senator for the vacancy, because the first appointed Senator is about to resign.
ANOTHER VACANCY MACHINATION CASE.
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NO SPECIAL ELECTIONS FOR VACANCIES.
CANDIDATE/INCUMBENT REPLACEMENT LISTS.
I agree that the “same party” issue reeks of being unconstitutional.
@DR,
That would require a constitutional amendment.
Do we really want senators bequeath their seats to their children?
The lawsuit should name the Congress as the real party in interest. If Arizona may not permit a 27-month delay,then neither may Congress.
Congress should use its time, places, manner authority to regulate special elections to fill vacancies for senators and representatives.
It already does this for certain circumstances, See 2 USC 8(b).
Special election within 49 days, unless a general election within 75 days. No party nominations, majority required for election.
State legislatures could still permit temporary appointments to the senate under terms of the 17th Amendment.
Most life or death reforms will require a const amdt —
due to the EVIL in the brains of the top gerrymander HACK control freak MONSTERS
— and the math morons in SCOTUS.
Have to run for election after any appointment.
Abolish the minority rule USA Senate.
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2016 USA PREZ VOTES
USA SENATE MINORITY RULE
ST STATE, PA PERCENT OF AVERAGE = TOTAL VOTES/50 = 2,727,159
AV ACCUMULATED VOTES, PT PERCENT TOTAL VOTES
ST ST VOTES PA AV PT RANK PT/2
50 WY 255,849 9.4 255,849 0.2 1 0.1
45 VT 315,067 11.6 570,916 0.4 2 0.2
2 AK 318,608 11.7 889,524 0.7 3 0.4
34 ND 344,360 12.6 1,233,884 0.9 4 0.5
41 SD 370,093 13.6 1,603,977 1.2 5 0.6
11 HI 428,937 15.7 2,032,914 1.5 6 0.8
8 DE 443,814 16.3 2,476,728 1.8 7 0.9
39 RI 464,144 17.0 2,940,872 2.2 8 1.1
26 MT 497,147 18.2 3,438,019 2.5 9 1.3
12 ID 690,255 25.3 4,128,274 3.0 10 1.5
48 WV 714,423 26.2 4,842,697 3.6 11 1.8
29 NH 744,296 27.3 5,586,993 4.1 12 2.1
19 ME 747,927 27.4 6,334,920 4.6 13 2.3
31 NM 798,319 29.3 7,133,239 5.2 14 2.6
27 NE 844,227 31.0 7,977,466 5.9 15 3.0
28 NV 1,125,385 41.3 9,102,851 6.7 16 3.4
4 AR 1,130,635 41.5 10,233,486 7.5 17 3.8
44 UT 1,131,430 41.5 11,364,916 8.3 18 4.2
16 KS 1,184,402 43.4 12,549,318 9.2 19 4.6
24 MS 1,209,357 44.3 13,758,675 10.1 20 5.1
36 OK 1,452,992 53.3 15,211,667 11.2 21 5.6
15 IA 1,566,031 57.4 16,777,698 12.3 22 6.2
7 CT 1,644,920 60.3 18,422,618 13.5 23 6.8
17 KY 1,924,149 70.6 20,346,767 14.9 24 7.5
37 OR 2,001,336 73.4 22,348,103 16.4 25 8.2
18 LA 2,029,032 74.4 24,377,135 17.9 26 9.0 ***
40 SC 2,103,027 77.1 26,480,162 19.4 27 9.7
1 AL 2,123,372 77.9 28,603,534 21.0 28 10.5
42 TN 2,508,027 92.0 31,111,561 22.8 29 11.4
3 AZ 2,573,165 94.4 33,684,726 24.7 30 12.4
14 IN 2,734,958 100.3 36,419,684 26.7 31 13.4
6 CO 2,780,247 101.9 39,199,931 28.7 32 14.4
20 MD 2,781,446 102.0 41,981,377 30.8 33 15.4
25 MO 2,808,605 103.0 44,789,982 32.8 34 16.4
23 MN 2,944,813 108.0 47,734,795 35.0 35 17.5
49 WI 2,976,150 109.1 50,710,945 37.2 36 18.6
47 WA 3,317,019 121.6 54,027,964 39.6 37 19.8
21 MA 3,325,046 121.9 57,353,010 42.1 38 21.1
30 NJ 3,874,046 142.1 61,227,056 44.9 39 22.5
46 VA 3,984,631 146.1 65,211,687 47.8 40 23.9
10 GA 4,114,732 150.9 69,326,419 50.8 41 25.4
33 NC 4,741,564 173.9 74,067,983 54.3 42 27.2
22 MI 4,799,284 176.0 78,867,267 57.8 43 28.9
35 OH 5,496,487 201.5 84,363,754 61.9 44 31.0
13 IL 5,536,424 203.0 89,900,178 65.9 45 33.0
38 PA 6,165,478 226.1 96,065,656 70.5 46 35.3
32 NY 7,721,442 283.1 103,787,098 76.1 47 38.1
43 TX 8,969,226 328.9 112,756,324 82.7 48 41.4
9 FL 9,420,039 345.4 122,176,363 89.6 49 44.8
5 CA 14,181,604 520.0 136,357,967 100.0 50 50.0
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– TOT 136,357,967
– AVE 2,727,159
– MEMO
– DC 311,268
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– ***–THUS 9.0 PERCENT OF VOTERS IN 26 SMALLEST STATES CAN/DO ELECT 52 OF 100 USA SENATORS
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– CA HAD MORE VOTES THAN 20 SMALLEST STATES
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– 10 LARGEST STATES [GA TO CA] HAD MORE VOTES THAN 40 SMALLEST STATES.
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ABOLISH THE ANTI-DEMOCRACY MINORITY RULE USA SENATE.
The 1787 USA Const continues to be a LATE DARK AGE document —
with MULTIPLE FATAL defects–
1. Democracy defects
2. Separation of Powers defects.
The top MONSTERS in Devil City will be exploiting ALL the defects in 2019-2020 with HIGH odds for Civil WAR II — since the top MORONS love to shoot off their top MORON mouths — which very likely WILL produce CRISIS counter-actions.
See the falling stock market — fools/morons left holding JUNK stocks —
deja vu repeat of 1929-1933 ??? — early part of Great Depression I – 1929-1941
— mere 12 plus years — econ wrecking brains for about 50 years.
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Demo Rep is talking to himself again.
Know-it-all MORONS can NOT be talked to — esp. Party HACKS and foreign enemy agents.
SOME minor hope for NON-morons
— who can learn about the LACK of Democracy and Separation of Powers in the USA and State regimes.
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Now about $ 38 TRILLION — USA+State+Local debts.
Now about $ 11 TRILLION debt to foreign folks – all since 1982 – senile Reagan regime — much used in added loans to USA regime [USA regime debt].
Now about $ 19-20 Trillion GDP.
TOTAL econ CRISIS possible any computer micro-second
— esp. with robot sell programs
— and the loose cannon Econ super-MORON in the White House.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Senate
Rise and Fall of Roman Senate [and Roman assemblies]
— how many FATAL defects ???
NEVER any shortage of tyrants — see Stalin and Hitler regimes.
Too many polisci MORONS to count ???
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TOTAL Separation of Powers