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Kentucky’s Dem Governor Threatens Nuclear Option on Mitch Crisis (www.thedailybeast.com)

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 87 points 1 day ago (4 children)

“But here’s the thing: there is a Kentucky constitutional provision that says that I appoint all state officers when there’s a vacancy,” he added. “The question is, does that apply to federal offices? Well, before there was ever a law in Kentucky on how this would work, multiple appointments were made by governors, assumably under that provision.”

TL;DR this isn’t even a “nuclear option”. It’s just “the option that was SOP for a long fucking time”. It’s only in contention now because the fascists want to be the only ones who are allowed to use said SOP, and don’t want their political opponents to have any agency whatsoever.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Standard conservative ideology: the law binds you, but not me. The law protects me, but not you. I can use the very same rule you're not allowed to use.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

When was Beshear told he wasn't allowed to use this? By who? Unless a court told him no already he should have done this before even talking about it.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How is it in contention? Has Beshear even attempted this and been told no by a court or anybody?

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

The Republican controlled KY State legislature passed a law that requires a special election just before Democrat Beshear took office.

That state law didn't amend the state's Constitution tho.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

FWIW I do believe that the "Conservative" stance here is the right one, more specifically that it should be the legal policy across every state. There's no logical justification for a governor having the unilateral right to appoint a successor to an elected office. Off season / special elections are not nearly the logicistical nightmare that they were even 20 years ago.

For every potential Beshear-Massie (read: based) situation, you can have what just happened in SC, where the governor (R) replaced Lindsey Graham's (R) seat with... Lindsey Graham's sister (R) because of... reasons.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 20 hours ago

We need to play by the current rules, not the ones we want to believe are just. Cause there already is the Lindsey Graham situation and they didnt need inspiration to do it.

Fighting back with hands tied behind our back cause we were told "its fair" doesnt look like fighting at all.