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Wiz Imp

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5. doesn't matter.

Reply to Raven123 (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 18, 2025, 08:04 PM

Tuesday

A pocket veto is not an actual veto but a procedural maneuver to avoid accountability.

From wikipedia:

Normally, if the president does not sign a bill, it becomes law after ten days (not including Sundays) as if they had signed it. A pocket veto occurs when a bill fails to become law because the president does not sign it within the ten-day period and cannot return the bill to Congress because Congress is no longer in session. Article 1, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution states:

If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a Law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a Law.

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A crazy theory on what Johnson and Thune may be doing here. [View all] Wiz Imp Tuesday OP

You're right; they aren't that clever- biophile Tuesday #1

Are you sure? The bill passed with a veto proof majority Raven123 Tuesday #2

doesn't matter. Wiz Imp Tuesday #5

Nothing would stop the same bill being forced back in December EdmondDantes_ Tuesday #10

I agree with that, but you still have to factor in that Wiz Imp Tuesday #12

Seems rather conspiratorial given it was 527-1 EdmondDantes_ Tuesday #15

Not remotely conspiratorial Wiz Imp Tuesday #17

Illogical, but I learned something Raven123 Tuesday #11

He doesn't think twice. Iggo Tuesday #18

Twice is two times more than he thinks dpibel Tuesday #19

You sure? I think 2 is five time more than he thinks Jerry2144 Tuesday #22

500 percent, 600 percent, 1400 percent! dpibel Tuesday #28

But pee wee german does. niyad Tuesday #21

Both houses have been using pro-forma sessions... appmanga Tuesday #32

Winning answer. bottomofthehill Tuesday #33

This is possinle, BUT i gotta say again, their plan is bluestarone Tuesday #3

Will be hard for them to justify enough to get around the text of the bill Wiz Imp Tuesday #6

I hear ya, but bluestarone Tuesday #7

Try not to post on any social media that the stooges read vapor2 Tuesday #4

This is victim Haley Robson from this morning Wiz Imp Tuesday #8

There will still be pro-forma sessions every few days, there hasn't been a real recess since like 2006. tritsofme Tuesday #9

That's why I said it was highly unlikely, but it was done very frequently in the past Wiz Imp Tuesday #14

The same process that has prevented recess appointments since 2007 would prevent this as well tritsofme Tuesday #16

You say they aren't that clever. Yet, could that be why karynnj Tuesday #13

They may not be that clever. .but pee wee german is. Which may explain niyad Tuesday #20

"It would not be a good look" is the understatement of the year Prairie Gates Tuesday #23

I doubt this maneuvering will be necessary. LudwigPastorius Tuesday #24

Ridiculous. "scrubbing" the files will only make things worse for Trump. Wiz Imp Tuesday #25

I think it is more ridiculous to assume that Trump is going to comply with this law. LudwigPastorius Tuesday #26

And you think that people will accept that the files have no mention of Trump? Wiz Imp Tuesday #29

Trump is approaching the point Turbineguy Tuesday #27

The stress of this may actually kill him Wiz Imp Tuesday #30

Both houses have been using pro-forma sessions to prevent any shenanigans... appmanga Tuesday #31