Questions tagged [united-states]
Questions relating to the government or the politics of the United States of America
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What consequences would a senator who does not attend the impeachment trial face? [duplicate]
I have seen the argument that impeachment was not about removing Trump, but rather it was about keeping presidential candidates who also happen to be senators off the campaign trail, especially Bernie ...
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Why does Bernie identify as Democrat, while everyone else says he is a Socialist, when he is actually a Social Democrat? [duplicate]
Pretty much just that. I never knew why. Some people have said "because of the two-party system" but I don't really know what it means by the system, because there are definitely more than two parties,...
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Does a Senate trial have more authority to call witnesses than a House impeachment hearing?
During the hearings for the impeachment of President Trump, the House subpoenaed the testimony of several witnesses. However, some of the witnesses refused to testify, defying the House subpoenas. At ...
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Why would it be difficult to stop the practice of birthright citizenship in the United States? [duplicate]
I read on https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/22/trump-travel-ban-visa-social-security-medicare (mirror):
The Trump administration has been restricting all forms of immigration, but the ...
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Why would the Senate adopt such tiring impeachment trial rules?
Many took breaks from listening to the hours-long presentations by house managers to stretch. But only hours into the presentations, several senators were spotted nodding off, including Sen. Richard ...
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What is the Chief Justice's role regarding Senator's written questions in an impeachment trial?
Its been explained that the Senators in attendance at an impeachment trial must remain silent, but may submit written questions. Can someone explain the process these written questions go through?
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Right to declare a war in modern time
While browsing random articles I found an interesting fact - that USA never formally declared a war in Vietnam. After googling a bit more it turned out that since WW2 USA never formally declared a war ...
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Why aren't the Congressional limits on press coverage during the Trump impeachment trial considered a breach of the first amendment?
Congress is proposing rules that would severely limit press coverage of the impeachment of Donald Trump, restricting where reporters may locate themselves and dramatically restructuring the way that ...
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How does a “delivery of military aid” play out in practice?
I am referring to the episode regarding the Ukraine conflict, where there was security assistance supposed to be paid by the United States to Ukraine.
How does this "release of aid" actually play out?...
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Restrictions to talking with the Press during Impeachment trial?
From my understanding, the impeachment trial of President Trump has almost started as the Senate is now voting on the rules of the trial. I know this might technically need to wait for those rules to ...
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Who is sitting behind Chuck Schumer? [duplicate]
Who is this blonde with the glasses behind Chuck Schumer?
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Have there been any sitting US presidents that regularly consult a former president, even informally?
A user, DJClayworth, asks in a comment (on this question )
I wonder how often Trump has consulted Obama for his "wise counsel". Or Obama consulted Bush for that matter.
I'd like to pose this as ...
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How did the 4th of July “Salute to America” military parade compare to France's (regular one) on Bastille Day, numerically?
Trump's decision to have a military parade on the 4th of July last year was criticized as being out of character for the US and even costly.
According to Wikipedia, France regularly conducts such a ...
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Do former US presidents have the right to receive daily CIA briefings?
In Michael Moore's 2004 film Fahrenheight 9/11 a person named Dan Briody says the following:
George H.W. Bush is a man who has obviously incredible reach into the White House. He receives daily CIA ...
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Can the Trump Campaign use the voter data the Trump Administration received in 2017?
In 2017 the Trump Administration requested and received 2016 voting data from the states. In some states this data can be used to determine how a person voted based on a code that was entered into the ...
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Have any details been released (or leaked) on the Trump-Hifter (=Haftar) call?
A NYT article on Libyan civil war states:
And the messages from Washington have been mixed. Days after Mr. Pompeo urged Mr. Hifter to stop his assault on Tripoli in April, President Trump called Mr....
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Who pays for President Trump's impeachment defence?
Who pays for President Trump's impeachment defence? Is it the US state or does President Trump need to pay for his own defence?
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What's (roughly) the smallest percentage of the US population that through its Senators has successfully blocked a piece of legislation?
According to some US constitutional pundits, in theory,
senators representing about 11 percent of the population can filibuster a bill or those representing about 16 percent of the population can ...
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Do any 2020 Democratic primary candidates support repealing the PATRIOT Act and eliminating mass surveillance in the United States?
Thinking back to how big of a scandal it was when President Obama signed the USA Freedom Act in 2015, and more generally how much flak Obama received with his handling of the 2013 surveillance ...
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Why do betting odds give Michael Bloomberg 10% chance of winning the Democratic nomination?
Currently https://www.electionbettingodds.com/ give Michael Bloomberg a bit over 10% chance of winning the Democratic nomination.
Since he is polling single digits(not even close to double digits) ...
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A new proposal suggests subdividing Washington D.C. into 127 new states so that they can change the Constitution at will. Is this possible?
There is a new proposal in the Harvard Law Review titled: "Pack the Union: A Proposal to Admit New States for the Purpose of Amending the Constitution to Ensure Equal Representation".
Lamenting the ...
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Why does the Democratic Party perform well in New England?
A lot has been written about the current demographics of the voter base of the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States. A Google Search of Trump popular white working class will result ...
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Has Trump managed to implement any of his anti-corruption (lobbying reform) campaign proposals?
In a 2016 article, the BBC noted some (four) proposals of then-candidate Trump:
Currently, anyone spending less than 20% of their time engaged in lobbying can call themselves an "adviser" or "...
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Is there anything stopping an impeachment trial from being filibustered?
So, in American politics, there is the tradition of the filibuster, where a legislator prevents a legislative activity from moving ahead by standing up and continuing to talk indefinitely, which has, ...
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US Chief Justice Roberts' choices of “in conformity with” and “in conformance with” during the swearing in at the Senate
US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts used both the phrases in conformity with and in conformance with within the same minute during a swearing-in process in the senate. This can be heard in CNN’...
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What has been the historical trend of U.S. congresspeople voting as blocks?
It feels as though every time I've looked at voting records from the U.S. congress, I notice that virtually everyone votes with their party; that is, for any given bill, every Republican votes the ...
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Who is the federal watchdog saying that Trump broke the law?
This report from NPR is about a watchdog report that says that Trump broke the law when he froze Ukranian funds. The White House says it was legal.
My question is: Who is the federal watchdog that ...
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Can impeachment managers be changed once the Senate trial starts?
So Pelosi has picked the "impeachment managers" for the House.
Are there rules that these managers can't be changed once the trial in the Senate starts? If so, what is the rationale for preventing a ...
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Are all U.S. Senators required to attend the impeachment trial?
Several U.S. Senators are campaigning for their party's nomination for the general presidential election of 2020. The impeachment trial will start next week.
Are these Senators required to attend all ...
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Is Bill Gates correct about Warren's tax plan? [closed]
In an interview Gates said:
When you say I should pay $100 billion then I'm starting to do a little math about what I have... leftovers
Turned out it was a joke, as he added "Just kidding". But ...
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Why did G.W. Bush remove North Korea from the list of sponsors of terrorism?
According to some news reports:
The designation of state sponsor of terror was removed from North Korea by President George W. Bush in 2008. North Korea was named among the ‘axis of evil’ countries ...
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Who presented the articles to the Senate alongside the Clerk?
During the preceding, the Clerk of the House and the Sergeant at Arms of the House were side-by-side. However, during the presentation, the Clerk was next to someone else, seen on the right below. Who ...
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Fact Checking Presidents information [closed]
Why does America not have an information facts checker to ensure that the information that is being relayed to American voters is accurate? The American voters are expecting that what the president ...
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Grey area of “impeachment”
According to what I've read: the House has the ability to impeach a President, however this doesn't mean the President has to leave office. He only has to leave office if the Senate finds him guilty. ...
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Why is the US broadcast media mostly banned from fact-checking political advertising?
On this site the author writes:
Two more Facebook moderation stories. On one hand, they're moving to block 'deep fake' manipulated video, but on the other, they're holding firm on not fact-checking ...
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Who is meant by “enemy” and “conspiracy” in Kennedy's speech?
President John F. Kennedy had a speech on April 27, 1961; famously called "THE PRESIDENT AND THE PRESS". In that speech, he mentions a hidden enemy with concealed acts. Who is it?
The President have ...
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Is there a good resource that lists all conference committees in the current Congress?
Conference committees are used to resolve difference between the two chambers of Congress. Even an astute observer may miss the creation of conference committees unless they regularly read the Record ...
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Why make large dense investigative reports for public release if there are significant barriers to understand them?
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The U.S. government time and again produces public large dense reports that describe specific phenomena in excruciating detail for someone not in the legal or lobbying profession. Every ...
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Why did the US add a group to terrorism list and after a while remove it?
I am not an expert or even medium in politic. I want to know: Why did the US add a group to terrorism list and after a while remove it?
My question is because of the following fact:
The United ...
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Is Iran missile strike the first unanswered strike to the US after Cuban crisis?
As everyone already heard, recently Iran launched a missile strike on US military bases in Iraq. US didn't answer with anything but tweets.
Is it the first time after Cuban Missile Crisis, when armed ...
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Why do African-Americans not support the GOP? [duplicate]
I am a new political enthusiast.
Recently I was studying the voting tendencies of the American ethnic group and found that most African Americans support the Democratic Party.
But one thing I ...
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Is this show of Islamic Republic and the US confrontation beneficial for Trump's impeachment process? [closed]
I'm an Iranian that I'm just living in the US for a couple of years. Recently, the tension between the US and Islamic Republic regime is heightened to another level that we didn't see it before. In ...
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Is there a way that Congress could secretly vote on approving a potential war?
The US killed Soleimani without notifying Congress, which a lot of people in Congress are angry about. There are fears this could start a war, which would constitutionally require congressional ...
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What are the rules for subpoenaing witnesses in a US Presidential Impeachment trial?
Senator Mitch McConnell has stated that he has sufficient votes to commence to impeachment trial and set the rules for it without Democratic support. Democrats have expressed concern over the ground ...
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is there any way a WW3 can start? [closed]
Because of the latest conflicts between USA and Iran, is there any way a WW3 can start?
And in what case a ww3 can start?
Honestly, I don't believe this but I want other people's opinion.
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Iran threatening to attack Dubai
Hours ago Iran had threatened to attack Dubai, referring to Dubai as "America's leg" because of our U.S. owned oil businesses and shipments there.
When Iran threatened to attack U.S. troops or ...
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Have US anti-ballistic-missile capabilities been used and were they effective in countering the recent Iranian missile strike on US bases in Iraq?
This is breaking news, so it may not be answerable right away but probably will be in a reasonably short term...
Iran has launched (from its own territory) ballistic missile strikes against US bases ...
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Can the House Democrats still call witnesses/can Bolton still testify?
From NBC news:
McConnell says he has enough Republican votes to begin Trump's trial without witnesses
The process cannot get started until Pelosi sends the House-passed articles charging the ...
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Are there polls/studies of how much US voters are influenced by foreign policy?
Have there been any polls or studies asking Americans how much their vote is influenced by foreign policy concerns?
For example, how much does the foreign policies of a president weigh on the choice ...
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Why is Iraq's decision to expel US troops non-binding?
In response to the United States' killing of an important Iranian military commander on Iraqi soil on 3 January 2020, the Iraqi parliament voted to expel US troops from the country. According to ...
