Where's the prison time and excommunication for politicians that violate their oaths?
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See what we need is a form of punishment that isn't too harsh but also gives real incentive for lawmakers to stop doing stupid BS just in the hopes it gets past SCOTUS.
Enact term limits. Any law you vote for that is repealed knocks a year off your term limit. So if your max term is 20 years and you vote for a bunch of stupid laws that all get repealed then your max term gets dropped down to 15 years... etc etc.
Lawmakers would pay a WHOLE lot more attention to what they voted for. The whole you have to vote for the bill to see what's in the bill BS would get thrown completely out the window.
Limit of 20 years of aggregate government service in elected or appointed positions, minus 5 years for each vote for, signature of, execution of, or improper adjudication of a law that violates the Constitution.
Seems like it makes sense
Lawmakers would pay even more attention if passing an unconstitutional “law” is treason and subject to military tribunal. And the downside is we get to remove the treasonous politicians. I don’t see a downside.
I like the cut of your jib!!
Politicians being held responsible... A good start would be removing all their separate bun unequal perks like a separate Social security type program, their own health care, diplo plates that allow them to go 90 and not get a traffic ticket. They have voted themselves all sorts of things that have conditioned them to be scofflaws...those might just as well be treason.