Ricardo C. Davis

This is how the GOP Senate blocks Trump from recess appointments. 2 minute pro forma sessions every few days during their vacation. Only POTUS in history that has had recess appointments blocked by his own party. Think about that. Traitors. Sickening.

Senate leadership sent notice of the DHS bill at 12:55am. Then a voice vote was held at 2:19am. The notice said, “with a substitute amendment” and gave no description of the substitute. The legislative language of the substitute was not sent around to GOP Senate staff. (Idk about Dems.) If you’re a staffer watching your email at that hour (some were!) you had to request the language of the bill. Track down leadership staff to find out how quickly this is moving. Try to read and understand it quickly. Understand how it changed from the original. Get your boss on the phone and explain it. Talk to other staffers to figure out if there’s a coalition to block it — they don’t know — their boss is trying to decide what to do too. Whoops, your one hour is up, the bill is passing and nothing you can do. Purposefully sneaky. They can do this kind of maneuver to not fund immigration enforcement. They would never dream of doing it for your priorities.

"This is true spirituality. Spirituality...means that Christ is the Lord of all your life and not just your religious life. And if you make a dichotomy in these things, you are denying your Lord His proper place. And I don't care how many butterflies you have in your stomach, you are poor spiritually." - Francis Schaeffer in 1982

The House passed HJR1089 at 12:03am on Thursday this week. If it passes the Senate, this will go to a vote of the people to approve an Oklahoma state Constitutional Convention. We’re supposed to have these every 20 years but the last time it was even voted on whether to have it or not was in 1970. 🗳️📜 I voted No, along with only a few other Republicans, because the framework being designed for this convention would only allow for the 149 state House and Senate members (a/k/a politicians) to be the official delegates to the convention. If you agree our political system is broken, and that the majority of the legislature are simply rubber-stamp approvals for leadership that do NOT have your best interests at heart; then this should deeply concern you. If our state constitution has the ability to change, even a little, through this process; I assure you the people of Oklahoma will get the short end of the stick if they get anything at all. When I asked why this couldn’t also include members of the public and not just legislators, I was met with an answer that in part said “we’re elected officials, not just random people someone picked." 🧐

I've been in litigation for 4 years. The Georgia Court of Appeals just affirmed, once again, that the new SB 12 legislation is not retroactive and private persons have a clear obligation to comply with the law. They even threw out a few citations to my case. My case is an easy win.

the oath required for the members of the PA state constitutional convention in 1776: I do profess faith in God, the father, and in Jesus Christ, his eternal son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God blessed for evermore; and do acknowledge the holy scriptures of the old and new testament, to be given by divine inspiration.