Trump has pledged, if elected, to commit war crimes against the families of terrorists, and to force American troops to follow unlawful orders.
And yet, in the aftermath of the 2016 November election, when an elector on the Democratic slate in Washington declared that he would never cast a vote for Hillary Clinton, it opened a Pandora's Box, giving other Democrats the idea of trying to abet electors in states where the Republican slate was elected to commit the criminal act of violating their oath and pledge to the people.
Rather than focusing on stressful monthly selfexams, women can better spend their energy by putting political pressure on their elected officials to commit serious resources to expanding research and providing quality care.
Obama appealed to voters to elect politicians committed to strengthening gun control and to gun owners to ask themselves whether organisations such as the National Rifle Association, which pour large amounts of money into lobbying against restrictions, are really serving the interests of those who use weapons for sport and hunting.
We can take a little snow. A. A little, yes, but public officials, especially elected ones, are loath to commit the same mistakes made in 1969 when a blizzard left much of the city incapacitated.
That is an unequivocal sign that the opposition either doesn't have, or can't confess, its programme; and that, in the post-Lula landscape, it's impossible to be elected without committing to the social programmes he introduced.
Nevertheless, Mukasey suggested that Congress could still impeach the president for agreeing to release five Taliban prisoners of war in exchange for Bergdahl, saying that elected officials do not need to commit crimes to be impeached.
And regretfully, this is where Iowa's elected officials stand today: ready to commit a grave offense against our constitution and democratic rights based on the advice of greedy fools who would aid and abet factory farms where some are bashing the brains out of animals with pickaxes rather than protecting those animals from harm and abuse.
It would represent vindication, but it could also spur some voters to redouble their efforts to elect candidates committed to repealing it.
"We just had an election, and the House of Representatives was elected committed to keeping taxes low," Grover Norquist, custodian of the notorious no-tax-hikes-ever pledge signed by almost every Republican in Congress, told CBS's Charlie Rose.
