HumblePi
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Really? Why was Holder held in contempt?
Why do Dems want to change the electoral college, the 2nd amendment, stack scotus, extending the border wall, and establish sanctuary cities which violate immigration laws.
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Sanctuary cities are not illegal according to the Tenth Amendment which states:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Sanctuary cities are constitutional. And ironically, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the Supreme Court opinion that supports their position.
The Federal Government does not control local law enforcement and cannot compel local law enforcement to act as immigration agents. The idea of sanctuary cities is based on sound public policy which, unfortunately, is never explained by the press to the people. Because it is never explained, too many of our people think it is some liberal conspiracy to victimize law-abiding citizens.
There are undocumented people living in virtually every major city and many medium cities. If police must apprehend all undocumented persons, regardless of how those persons come to the attention of police, these people will never report crimes to the police. They will not intervene to protect American citizens and they will not intervene to protect undocumented persons — even themselves.
So reversing sanctuary policies actually encourages crime in general as well as crime specifically directed against undocumented persons. Since we know this, and we know this type of policy is immoral and bad, our cities have learned to reject these policies.
The reason for sanctuary cities is this: If an illegal immigrant sees a crime, they will not call the police because they fear being deported. So your child may be in danger but the immigrant must turn away because of her own child. In a sanctuary city, the immigrant will call the police and not have to worry that she will be locked up and deported and taken away from her child.
THAT IS THE ONLY REASON WHY THERE ARE SANCTUARY CITIES AND WHY SANCTUARY CITIES MAKE SENSE.
Regarding the electoral college, it's something that should have been done away with decades ago. In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided).
Because of the state-by-state winner-take-all electoral votes laws (i.e., awarding all of a state’s electoral votes to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in each state) in 48 states, a candidate can win the Presidency without winning the most popular votes nationwide.
Most Americans don't ultimately care whether their presidential candidate wins or loses in their state or district . . . they care whether he/she wins the White House. Voters want to know, that even if they were on the losing side, their vote actually was equally counted and mattered to their candidate. Most Americans think it would be wrong for the candidate with the most popular votes to lose. We don't allow this in any other election in our representative republic.
Support for a national popular vote is strong among Republicans, Democrats, and Independent voters, as well as every demographic group in virtually every state surveyed in recent polls, almost always in the 70-80% range or higher. Since its origination in 2006, the National Popular Vote bill has been introduced in legislatures in all 50 states. More than 2,110 state legislators (in 50 states) have sponsored and/or cast recorded votes in favor of the National Popular Vote bill.
Regarding 2nd Amendment rights. Nobody wants to take away your guns. Believe it or not, (sit down for this one) there are many, many 'Libruls' that own firearms. What a shocker, right? No, you conservatives are not the only ones that have guns. Putting safeguards on the purchasing of weapons protects everyone. Even responsible gun owners are in favor of tighter laws for the purchase of guns.
The last item to address in your comment is "stack scotus". :doh Really? All I can say is Merrick Garland, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch. You might want to rethink that one.