• Neato
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    282 months ago

    I’ve been thinking along the same lines for a while. If I call 911 and submit a knowingly false report, I get charged with a crime. If I submit knowingly false paperwork to the government, I can be charged with a crime or at least infraction and fined.

    But these people we elect who have entire staffs that are for making sure they always have enough information are submitting blatantly unconstitutional laws just to get them passed through a majority congress to be again and again shot down at the judicial level should really face consequences.

    Though I don’t know what that would be without it being used to easily punish political opponents. If there’s a law that does this and gives the judiciary more power, how will it be used when conservatives control those 2 branches?

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      42 months ago

      If I call 911 and submit a knowingly false report, I get charged with a crime.

      There’s a long history of lynching and SWATing in America that suggests otherwise.