Thread: Are Lame Duck Sessions of Congress Unconstitutional? Accordi

Are Lame Duck Sessions of Congress Unconstitutional? According to The 20th Amendment, YES!

December 21, 2010 09:34 AM EST
comments: 33

For a Congress that has squandered more time than any preceding legislative body on programs the American people oppose, the 111th has been the model of industry in the current lame duck session. Yesterday, Harry Reid’s Senate voted on the DREAM Act, http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in- ... t-is-toast which would have given children of illegal immigrants a fast track to legality, and the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, which bans gays from openly serving in the military. Today it’s on to the START arms reduction treaty.

All of this is of course so much political posturing, paying back debts and assuaging angry constituencies, which flies in the face of the mandate the American people delivered in its midterm vote. But a bigger question is whether any of this legislation is constitutional.

An article by David Fahrentold in today’s Washington Post notes that lame duck sessions of Congress violate the spirit if not the letter of the Constitution. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 03572.html

For the letter of the law you need but look at the 20th Amendment, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentieth_ ... nstitution which was ratified on January 23, 1933. In essence, the amendment was meant “to kill off sessions like this—in which defeated legislators return to legislate.â€

jj Myles Dec 22, 2010, 5:18am EST

Of course, it is asinine to allow the employees we have fired to continue running things. They need to be pack their stuff and leave!

These DemoRATS tossed their Morals along with the Constitution LONG AGO.... Thats why I got out of the democratic party LONG AGO. I never thought that they would get this bad.... Our Congress Is BROKEN. The Executive branch Is running ruffshod over them and us (we the people) We literally have a DICTATOR In office,and the lamestream news media just looks the other way. We are In deep trouble as a nation....

We are In deep trouble as a nation....

Yes we are topsecret10. We are in deep do-do. And there are many people who think that voting the bums out will solve the problem.