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Are police in Western European countries right-wing or left-wing?
In America, the police have a reputation for being politically conservative. One rarely sees clashes between conservative demonstrators and police.
In Europe, though, there seem to be lots of clashes between anti-lockdown (presumably conservative)…
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Why is the Constitutionality of an Impeachment and Trial when out of office not settled?
The US Senate has voted 3 times, once in 1876 and twice in 2021, that impeachment and trial of an official who has left office is acceptable.
Despite this, Mitch McConnell voted to acquit Trump in 2021, apparently on the basis of this being…
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What's to stop the House majority party from voting to expel every member of the House minority party from committees?
Marjorie Taylor Greene was expelled by the House of Representatives this week from committee assignments after her comments on conspiracy theories. The vote passed by 230-199 with 11 Republicans joining the Democrats .
What kind of checks and…
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Why is changing the size of the Supreme Court considered dangerous today, when it has been done in the past?
Recently, there has been a lot of talk about "court packing", the process of increasing the size of the Supreme Court, thereby creating openings to be filled with new justices. A common argument is that such a plan would destroy the stability,…
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Has Biden discussed whether Trump should be prosecuted?
Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden has made clear that he believes that President Trump has committed impeachable offenses and has broken the law. So my question is, has Biden ever discussed whether he thinks Trump ought to be prosecuted…
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Why don't right-wing dictators crown themselves king?
So, something that seems odd to me is that while there are a number of dictatorships around the world, very few of them have the dictator deciding to crown themselves as a monarch, despite the veneer of legitimacy that doing so might grant them…
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Are there oligarchs in Western countries?
Why do I see the term 'oligarch' almost exclusively applied to Eastern European countries? Are there oligarchs in the European Union, the United States? As I understand it, an oligarch is a wealthy businessman with significant political clout. It…
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Why does the Scottish National Party object to being called nationalist?
On a number of occasions in the House of Commons I have noticed MPs, usually Conservatives, referring to the Scottish National Party (SNP) as "the Scottish Nationalist Party", or just "the Scottish Nationalists", usually to angry remarks from said…
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In the UK parliament, how much of Prime Minister's Questions is pre-planned?
So I was watching PMQs today and realised that almost everyone, certainly the party leaders, refers to notes during their time to talk.
Is the PM given a list of questions beforehand?
However during the back-and-forth between the pm and opposition…
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If grid parity has already been reached, why is it so expensive to switch to renewable energy?
Grid parity happens when the renewable energy source is competitive with fossil fuels without government subsidies. It has apparently already been reached by wind and solar power, at least in some parts of the world, in 2014.
However, it seems that…
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Can the President be impeached twice?
If an impeached President (but not one removed from office) is elected for a second term, can they be impeached again during their second term if the House decides they committed new impeachable offenses? If not, is a previously impeached President…
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Why is Trump not being impeached for bribery?
I am not asking for an opinion based answer, just factual.
This time last week, there was talk of three articles of impeachment.
Now, bribery has been dropped. Has any senior offical said why?
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Does the DOJ's declining to investigate the Trump-Zelensky call ruin the basis for impeachment?
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2019-07-25US President Donald Trump had a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that is central to the recent Trump–Ukraine controversy.
2019-09-24Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives,…
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Are there really no countries that protect Freedom of Speech as the United States does?
During the past few months I've seen a few news items about Europeans not having that much freedom of speech online, specifically in the UK. Americans, on the other hand, always pride themselves on their Freedom of Speech amendment. It got me…
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Why does the U.S. tolerate foreign influence from Saudi Arabia and Israel on its domestic policies while not tolerating that from China or Russia?
Why does the U.S. tolerate foreign influence from Saudi Arabia and Israel on its domestic policies while not tolerating that from China or Russia? Is there a reason for this? AIPAC is known to be one of the biggest lobbying groups, yet we don't seem…
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