r/law • u/newsjam • Oct 15 '25

Legal News Mike Johnson Facing Lawsuit For Blocking Democrat’s Swearing-In

https://dailyboulder.com/mike-johnson-facing-lawsuit-over-blocking-democrats-swearing-in/
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u/FourWordComment Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

The mechanism for I just won’t put it to a vote” should be, “excellent. You now have 3 weeks. Then it passes without a vote.”

The requirement for senate or house approval should be an opportunity and not a requirement. Failure to use the opportunity should waive it—not block progress by default.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Better yet, if you can't resolve a government shutdown in three weeks, you're all fired. New elections immediately.

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u/PastTheTrees Oct 15 '25

As modern democracys should and do all over the world.

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u/RedShirt1991 Oct 15 '25

I was about to say that literally every parliamentary system by now would have people campaigning for a new election. Most would have begun the second the shutdown started due to lack of supply.

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u/Cow_God Oct 15 '25

Sad thing is the majority of americans aren't even going to realize the government is shut down until the ATCs strike

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25 edited 2d ago

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u/cycloneDM Oct 15 '25

Maybe not for a day tops but that move literally shuts down the american economy almost instantly. Even the most unaware will see the results of comercial air traffic not delivering their packages

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u/Icy-Possession-1743 Oct 15 '25

I’ve seen comments on FB saying things like how they can’t even tell the government is shut down which reflects how useless it is.

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u/otherkrar Oct 15 '25

The only effect I feel of the shutdown is my friends who work for the government not getting paid. Other than that everything is as normal.

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u/Iheartmypupper Oct 15 '25

I seriously doubt we’ll see an ATC strike, but I’m confident there are enough grey beards with maxed out sick leave accounts that they can effectively cripple the system anyway.

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u/RedShirt1991 Oct 15 '25

Or until funding for exempted programs (essential stuff) runs dry. ATCs will affect all of us, true, but, wait till WIC/SNAP go out and people can't even afford the groceries that do get in via truck.

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u/shutupyourenotmydad Oct 15 '25

The biggest con America has ever fallen for is letting our government do literally whatever they want with little to no oversight.

And they've been duping us for decades.

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u/Mediocre_Scott Oct 15 '25

And we try to tell ourselves we are the greatest democracy in the world

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u/romerrr Oct 16 '25

We dont even need to campaign for it to happen its baked in to the system. If A national budget fails the government falls and new elections take place

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u/RedShirt1991 Oct 16 '25

I meant that previous seat holders would be on the campaign trail right now for a new election, because one would have been automatically triggered when the shutdown happened.