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Re: Three strikes you're out! for politicians... yeah we wish!
In message <[email protected]> Craig Hubley writes:
>Any time the Supreme Court strikes down a law, any politician who has been
>found to have voted in favor of three such laws is immediately stripped of
>all offices and rendered ineligible to run for public office ever again,
>at any level.
This might be nice, but questions of "upsetting the system of checks
and balances" aside, you can't do it. It would violate Article I,
Section 6 of the Constitution, which says that "for any speech or
debate in either House, [the Senators and Representatives] shall not be
questioned in any other place". "Speech or debate" would cover the
vote on any question.
Therefore, the only organization which can hold a
senator/representative liable for passing a bad law is the one which
passed the law. :(