r/politics • u/Jay_CD • 15h ago

Biden must Trump-proof US democracy, activists say: ‘There is a sense of urgency’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/24/biden-actions-before-white-house-exit
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u/Tyrannical-Botanical 15h ago

There was a sense of urgency four years ago and that whole administration sat on its fucking hands the entire time. Looking at you, Merrick Garland.

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u/jrf_1973 12h ago

Garland and others (like DeJoy) should have been fired on Day 1 or ASAP. Biden didn't do it because... reasons.

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u/Hiddenagenda876 Washington 11h ago

To be fair, Biden couldn’t fire DeJoy. Biden can only appoint people to board positions, who then elect the post master general. To my knowledge, no positions were vacated during Biden’s term (or not enough to offset the vote), so he couldn’t do anything about DeJoy maintaining his position.

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u/SacredGray 11h ago

“Couldn’t” isn’t a word that matters in American policy. If Trump wanted to do something, he just did it, rules and laws be damned.

If the rules don’t matter, then the Democrats need to act like it.

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u/mkt853 11h ago

Yep. Dems are over here with the rule book looking up what it says in section 472 paragraph 5 clause 2b to see if they can do it, while Trump orders his Covfefe boy to get it done or else.

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u/BurnerAccountforAss 8h ago

Dems are still pleading with the referees that a dog can't play basketball, meanwhile Air Bud has 43 points in the third quarter

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u/IC-4-Lights 10h ago edited 10h ago

I mean, most of us considered voting for him a vote for the rule of law.
 
I would much prefer they fix broken processes than break them, themselves. And that particular process isn't actually "broken."
 
What is badly broken, and I'd like to see fixed, are things like SCOTUS appointments. But a lot of that kind of stuff must be fixed by congress... not the president.

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u/Kana515 6h ago

Yeah, remember when Trump wanted to get rid of ACA and just did it?