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Showing Original Post only (View all)Question for those callling the shutdown an act of sedition [View all]
I'm clearly on record that whatever the repubs may be doing, its not criminal. But let's assume for a minute that it was. What then? What would you have happen that would result in the government shutdown ending?
Would you have all of the House Republicans arrested and jailed? If that is your answer, how do you get a constitutionally required quorum to pass a continuing resolution?
Would you have a court mandate, under threat of imprisonment that the republicans pass a CR? WOuld you have the courts decide which CR the repubs would be forced to enact -- presumably the one that the Senate passed rather than the one that the House passed? Could the courts go ahead and increase the funding in the Senate passed CR and make the repubs vote for that? Would you simply skip over the whole legislative process and have the courts declare the government is funded without passing legislation?
I've heard of countries where the legislature is a rubberstamp body that can only vote one way or face severe sanctions. I don't think of those countries as democracies and I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in them.
So, again, my question: How does charging the repubs with sedition (assuming that anyone in the Department of Justice would remotely consider doing such an absurd thing) end the government shutdown?