This has enough votes to pass, Senators have 24 hours to change their votes.
Aye
And as Duke alluded to, it's really not difficult, if this is found unconstitutional, to use the nuclear option.
You mean removing all federal funding from a region because they won't do something we legally are not allowed to command them to do? That should definitely be considered unconstitutional.
Not really because no one is forcing them to take the money.
Ironically, the episode of M.A.S.H where BJ borrows money from Winchester to buy some land and pays for it as Winchester basically try to make him his slave, is on right now.
No, we are just taxing the people of the region, thus lessening the tax base for regional funding for a function, and then withholding the money for that function if they don't do what we tell them in some completely different area. Yeah, not coercive at all.
Hold on, I'm confused. Do you think rapists should be allowed custody of their children?
