There is no provision anywhere yet for a national initiative. What are the possibilities of state petitions for an initiative? The following is what I have been working on for my state.
A NEVADA (or substitute other state name) INITIATIVE/REFERENDUM ON PREVENTING THE PARDONING OF JAN. 6TH TERTORISTS AND REMOVING DONALD J. TRUMP FROM OFFICE
There is no provision anywhere yet for a national initiative. What are the possibilities of state petitions for an initiative? The following is what I have been working on for my state.
A NEVADA (or substitute other state name) INITIATIVE/REFERENDUM ON PREVENTING THE PARDONING OF JAN. 6TH TERTORISTS AND REMOVING DONALD J. TRUMP FROM OFFICE
Whereas:
Convicted Jan. 6th, 2021 defendants are domestic terrorists;
To pardon convicted terrorists would be a violation of the Presidential Oath of Office;
To pardon Jan. 6th defendants would constitute an egregious obstruction of justice;
To pardon dangerous violent criminals without cause is an abuse of power;
To pardon these terrorists is further an abuse and a perversion of the pardon power;
To pardon violent and destructive coup participants, seditionists, and insurrectionists is a slap in the face to the judges, prosecutors, grand juries and other juries of their peers and no less importantly to the people and to democracy;
Whereas:
Donald J. Trump did deviously plan, strategize, coordinate, and orchestrate the attack on our government at the U.S. Capitol complex on Jan. 6th, 2021;
Donald J. Trump did summon the mob, did intentionally and with malice aforethought agitate and inflame, and methodically foment the crowd assembled at his rally to a high state of emotion, anger, and physical action, and did use language designed to stir the crowd to fight, attack, and resist;
Donald J. Trump did abrogate his constitutional duties and obligations and was derelict in the performance of his presidential duty to preserve the peace and to defend the Constitution and the Congress in the extreme for several hours in his purposeful refusal to order his followers and devotees to disband and to cease the violence of which he was the principal architect and cause, as was documented on live television and by extensive due process;
And Whereas:
The Fourteenth Amendment expressly prohibits anyone from holding office who has been a participant in or an organizer of an insurrection against the United States:
Therefore, as citizens of the State of Nevada, we the people of the United States do hereby demand the immediate recall and permanent removal of Donald J. Trump from his official position and duties as an elected representative and as our servant in our pursuit of a more perfect union.
Amendments are hard to promote and take a lot of time, unfortunately. Nader and others have tried to get a national initiative amendment without success. Under Trump it will be impossible. Unless Merrick Garland acts really, really soon a petition will be merely symbolic. If people in many states were to circulate petitions, post haste, the points made (and revised for clarity or greater accuracy) could eventually be useful, presumably BTW, where the hell is Smith's report? I'm waiting with bated breath.
There is no provision anywhere yet for a national initiative. What are the possibilities of state petitions for an initiative? The following is what I have been working on for my state.
A NEVADA (or substitute other state name) INITIATIVE/REFERENDUM ON PREVENTING THE PARDONING OF JAN. 6TH TERTORISTS AND REMOVING DONALD J. TRUMP FROM OFFICE
Whereas:
Convicted Jan. 6th, 2021 defendants are domestic terrorists;
To pardon convicted terrorists would be a violation of the Presidential Oath of Office;
To pardon Jan. 6th defendants would constitute an egregious obstruction of justice;
To pardon dangerous violent criminals without cause is an abuse of power;
To pardon these terrorists is further an abuse and a perversion of the pardon power;
To pardon violent and destructive coup participants, seditionists, and insurrectionists is a slap in the face to the judges, prosecutors, grand juries and other juries of their peers and no less importantly to the people and to democracy;
Whereas:
Donald J. Trump did deviously plan, strategize, coordinate, and orchestrate the attack on our government at the U.S. Capitol complex on Jan. 6th, 2021;
Donald J. Trump did summon the mob, did intentionally and with malice aforethought agitate and inflame, and methodically foment the crowd assembled at his rally to a high state of emotion, anger, and physical action, and did use language designed to stir the crowd to fight, attack, and resist;
Donald J. Trump did abrogate his constitutional duties and obligations and was derelict in the performance of his presidential duty to preserve the peace and to defend the Constitution and the Congress in the extreme for several hours in his purposeful refusal to order his followers and devotees to disband and to cease the violence of which he was the principal architect and cause, as was documented on live television and by extensive due process;
And Whereas:
The Fourteenth Amendment expressly prohibits anyone from holding office who has been a participant in or an organizer of an insurrection against the United States:
Therefore, as citizens of the State of Nevada, we the people of the United States do hereby demand the immediate recall and permanent removal of Donald J. Trump from his official position and duties as an elected representative and as our servant in our pursuit of a more perfect union.
Constitution permits amendments.
Amendments are hard to promote and take a lot of time, unfortunately. Nader and others have tried to get a national initiative amendment without success. Under Trump it will be impossible. Unless Merrick Garland acts really, really soon a petition will be merely symbolic. If people in many states were to circulate petitions, post haste, the points made (and revised for clarity or greater accuracy) could eventually be useful, presumably BTW, where the hell is Smith's report? I'm waiting with bated breath.
BTW I just read up on Bagdad by The Sea and find it a fascinating historical part of the nation I did not know existed. On my bucket list now.
Big day here today. Epiphany. Parade Sunday. https://www.miami.gov/Notices/Events-Activities/Three-Kings-Parade#:~:text=Mayor%20Francis%20X.,%2C%20at%2012%3A00%20PM.