Wokeity Woke Woke on Spoutible

1/13

“Over the past two years, Republicans also have sought to pry Democrats and nonpartisan executives from office through recalls, legislative maneuvers and forced removals, even when no allegations of wrongdoing have surfaced.”

Airyca White @airycasTrials

Impeachments and forced removals from office emerge as partisan weapons in the states

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans in Wisconsin are threatening to impeach a recently elected state Supreme Court justice and raised the possibility of doing the same to the state's election director. ...

07:34 AM - Oct 08, 2023

07:45 AM - Oct 08, 2023

Wokeity Woke Woke

@Bethbo_beth

2/13

“To some, the moves appear anti-democratic — actions that could have major implications if they become routine and supplant the ballot box as the final arbiter of an election.”

07:46 AM - Oct 08, 2023

Wokeity Woke Woke

@Bethbo_beth

3/13

“It’s not just impeachment. Over the past two years, Republicans also have sought to pry Democrats and nonpartisan executives from office through recalls, legislative maneuvers and forced removals, even when no allegations of wrongdoing have surfaced.”

07:47 AM - Oct 08, 2023

Wokeity Woke Woke

@Bethbo_beth

4/13

“If voters cannot go to the voting booth and cast their ballot without the fear of an election being vacated and their vote being rendered null and void, what’s the point of having elections … ?” said Dem Senate minority leader in Wisconsin. “This is the fundamental promise of our nation.”

07:48 AM - Oct 08, 2023

Wokeity Woke Woke

@Bethbo_beth

5/13

“Republican legislative leaders there have threatened to impeach a liberal Supreme Court justice, Janet Protasiewicz, who won her seat by more than 10 percentage points this year in an election that flipped the Wisconsin court to liberal control for the first time in 15 years.”

07:49 AM - Oct 08, 2023

Wokeity Woke Woke

@Bethbo_beth

6/13

“Republicans want her to withdraw from redistricting cases involving the state’s heavily gerrymandered political map, which has given the GOP outsize control of the Legislature in a state where Democrats have won most statewide executive offices.”

07:50 AM - Oct 08, 2023

Wokeity Woke Woke

@Bethbo_beth

7/13

“Since the founding of our state in 1848, no state Legislature has even introduced articles of impeachment in order to nullify a vote by the people of Wisconsin to gain partisan advantage,”

07:51 AM - Oct 08, 2023

Wokeity Woke Woke

@Bethbo_beth

8/13

“On Friday, the state’s Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to the gerrymandered maps on a partisan 4-3 vote, with the new justice declining to step aside, thereby increasing the chances of an impeachment.”

07:51 AM - Oct 08, 2023

Wokeity Woke Woke

@Bethbo_beth

9/13

“Republicans have tried other ways in recent years to remove Democrats or nonpartisans from office even in the absence of any allegation of wrongdoing.”

07:53 AM - Oct 08, 2023

Wokeity Woke Woke

@Bethbo_beth

10/13

“Michigan State University law school professor Brian Kalt described the failed recall as “just another example of polarization and the weaponization of constitutional law to solve political disputes.”

07:54 AM - Oct 08, 2023

Wokeity Woke Woke

@Bethbo_beth

11/13

“It’s important to have these powers because sometimes you don’t want to wait for a bad actor’s term to end before they’re removed from power,” he said. “…. and that these devices that are meant to stop abuse could potentially be themselves abused”

07:55 AM - Oct 08, 2023

Wokeity Woke Woke

@Bethbo_beth

12/13

Do people understand yet that Democracy itself is at risk? That fascist powers are through the gates? We must vote like our lives depend on it. Voting rights must be secured, protected, and —defended—.

07:57 AM - Oct 08, 2023

Wokeity Woke Woke

@Bethbo_beth

13/13

This article has examples from several states, demonstrating coordinated action attacking legal elections to remove officials for partisan reasons.

07:59 AM - Oct 08, 2023

Larry with an i

@Bikerlarry

In response to Wokeity Woke Woke.

A gangster nation in the making. The republican party is one big fat RICO case.

07:51 AM - Oct 08, 2023

Anton Markwart

@AntonMarkwart

In response to Larry with an i.

...and fascist, don't forget that!

08:16 AM - Oct 08, 2023

Wokeity Woke Woke

@Bethbo_beth

In response to Larry with an i.

Agreed. It’s a cynical form of lawlessness that “power makes right”. Republicans want to rule at any cost and removing the duly elected is a strategy that only —started— with Tr///ump.

08:17 AM - Oct 08, 2023

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Impeachments and forced removals from office emerge as partisan weapons in the states