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No One Important's avatar

LAWFARE

Everywhere we turn there are politically-motivated lawsuits intended to push one political agenda and stop another. They do this because there is no downside. If you don't like President Trump, you sue him every time he opens his mouth. You choose activist "judges" to hear the cases. What if you lose? You are out the few dollars for the legal fees and the "judge" still is a "judge".

What if Congress passed a law that thwarted these frivolous lawsuits and activist "judges". What if a "judge" who was overruled X times lose his/her position? What if an activist group had to pay ALL court costs each time they lost? I think this lawfare would be drastically reduced if there were consequences and accountability to them.

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Nancy D Churchill's avatar

I agree. Congress needs to take action to limit lawfare and political misuse of the legal system.

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Laura Gahan's avatar

Where is our great senator, Patti Murray? Of 32 years! Our dams , our fish, now our water supply for fighting wildfires! She needs to be voted out

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Nancy D Churchill's avatar

I encourage you to actively support any conservative candidate you like running against either of our Senators. It's an uphill battle to win against the D machine in this state, but it can be done!

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Jeff Lynn's avatar

100% correct it is an uphill, Sysiphus like, battle to dislodge the democrats from our 2 senate seats and many other positions. I thought we had Murray on the ropes in 2022 with Tiffany Smiley but once again the King county machine prevailed. Now Cant-vote-well is entrenched until 2030. Both our federal and state representation is dominated by left leaning democrats.

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polistra's avatar

The question is whether the state government will permit it. Ferguson made his bones as AG by suing Trump all the time instead of solving problems here. He's continuing the same policy as governor.

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Nancy D Churchill's avatar

It's not like we have a great person in charge of Natural Resources, either... Upthegrove 👀

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Political Correspondent's avatar

This is all good news. There are many things to be irritated about when it comes to President Trump, but cutting through all the ridiculousness, his appointments to SCOTUS, his appointments to the different agencies, and his focus on getting rid of red tape are all golden. Not just for the rural areas, either. Every industry will win (well, except maybe the green energy industry - they can't survive without gov't subsidies!!)

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Jeff Lynn's avatar

At this point the only hope we have is SCOTUS siding with the Trump administration on such issues. WA is so full of democrat reps we continue to lose individual rights and freedoms while paying more in taxes for those losses.

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