Democracy Matters :verified:<p>Will Republicans try to override the Byrd Rule? How can they, when it was named after the great West Virginia (reformed) racist and KKK Exalted Cyclops, Senator Robert Byrd?</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SeemsWhite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeemsWhite</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ByrdRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ByrdRule</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BigFuglyBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigFuglyBill</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RepublicansOwnItAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicansOwnItAll</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
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Kim Perales<p>⚡"Looks like (as predicted), the House's attempt to strict fed courts of power to enforce contempt of court orders is going to get stripped out thanks to the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ByrdRule" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ByrdRule</span></a>."<br>-A Reichlin-Melnick</p><p>"Grassley tells me he had a meeting yesterday on House's contempt citation language tucked in reconciliation <a href="https://toad.social/tags/bill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bill</span></a>. </p><p>"The house plan isn't Byrdable" & at very least provision will have to be "modified."</p><p>Adds he didn't hear a decision in the meeting about what'll happen."<br>-J Carney<br><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Courts</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Contempt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Contempt</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
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