Because having a private citizen paying the military wouldn't create an entire library full of legal and ethical issues, and hasn't been used in the past to subsume the military's authority to that one person.
At that point, they aren't a military. They're mercenaries.
Rep. Ralph Norman on Trump saying a wealthy donor is willing to pay the troops if the government can't: "Democrats underestimated the patriotism of those who are willing to pay the 1.3 million active enlisted men in this country."
Johnson had a flimsy, but legally plausible, argument that he could not swear her in until the vote was officially certified after the canvass of voters.
Which happened today. So now there is no argument to be made saying he can't do it.
No, under Title 2 of the U.S. Code only the Speaker of the House (or the Acting Speaker if the Speaker is incapacitated or the position is vacant) can swear in members of the House of Representatives.
My wife is not happy that the local coffee shop (& wine bar) where she hosted Postcards For Voters for the last several months is suddenly closing at the end of October due to being priced out of their space by their landlords.
It sucks, because it was a nice space and friendly staff.
Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.
The disdain Amodei has for his constituents is staggering even for a Republican.
The *only* time he appears is in carefully stage-managed "interviews" with friendly outlets like the Sinclair-owned NBC stations in Reno and Las Vegas.
