RED ALERT! HR-3808 Veto Override Attempt | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 968654 United States 11/17/2010 02:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Snippet from [link to news.firedoglake.com] UPDATE: It’s possible for this to never get a vote. The House could just move to table consideration. They still get a say in the matter, and the bill doesn’t actually get a roll call. Not sure exactly what the House has planned, but that’s an option. The bill shouldn’t pass even if it wasn’t a back-door way to make it harder on lawyers defending foreclosure victims, by the way. Just on a “Cui bono?” basis, an industry party to a major scandal should not be rewarded with an opening of their markets and an easing of their processes. UPDATE II: The Wall Street Journal has a piece on this, which doesn’t mention pocket vetoes or separation of powers at all, showing that there are two political conversations in this country, one in the media, and then the actual political conversation. UPDATE III: As I suspected, the vote to dispose today is entirely procedural and a way to express the prerogatives of the Congress on pocket vetoes. It’s not going to pass. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 904454 United States 11/17/2010 02:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Read the entire bill. It's not about notarized documents. It's about ELECTRONIC documents that have not been notarized. They want to make the electronic docs (computer-signed or forged) legal. Quoting: Samuel AdamsYou are Correct! This law is Unconstitutional !!!!!!! No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. [link to www.usconstitution.net] An ex post facto law (from the Latin for "from after the action") or retroactive law, is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences (or status) of actions committed or relationships that existed prior to the enactment of the law. FREEING THE SLAVES WAS AN EX POST FACTO LAW, WASN'T IT? THE PEOPLE WHO OWNED THEM PRIOR TO THE PASSAGE OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT SHOULD HAVE BEEN GRANDFATHERED IN. |