nobody's_hero
02-14-2013, 03:17 PM
Davis posted on facebook:
GOP has 28-18 majority in SC Senate, but vote to set NDAA nullification bill for debate and passage just failed, with several Republicans joining with Democrats to defeat it. Similar bills are passing in other states -- the Michigan House of Representatives did it by a vote of 107 to 0 -- but here in SC Senate, with a huge portrait of John C. Calhoun looming over the dais, we can't get the job done. I am greatly embarrassed for the institution.
He followed up with a comment:
Oh, and here's the actual language of S. 92 that those voting "nay" somehow found offensive: "No agency of the State, agency of a political subdivision of the State, officer or employee of the State, officer or employee of a political subdivision of the State, acting in his official capacity, to include any member of the South Carolina Military Department solely on official state duty, or employees of any state or local detention facility solely on official state duty, may engage in an activity that aids an agency of the armed forces of the United States in execution of 50 U.S.C. 1541, as provided by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, or any subsequent provision of this law in the detainment of any citizen of the United States in violation of Section 3, Article I, and Section 14, Article I of the South Carolina Constitution."
GOP has 28-18 majority in SC Senate, but vote to set NDAA nullification bill for debate and passage just failed, with several Republicans joining with Democrats to defeat it. Similar bills are passing in other states -- the Michigan House of Representatives did it by a vote of 107 to 0 -- but here in SC Senate, with a huge portrait of John C. Calhoun looming over the dais, we can't get the job done. I am greatly embarrassed for the institution.
He followed up with a comment:
Oh, and here's the actual language of S. 92 that those voting "nay" somehow found offensive: "No agency of the State, agency of a political subdivision of the State, officer or employee of the State, officer or employee of a political subdivision of the State, acting in his official capacity, to include any member of the South Carolina Military Department solely on official state duty, or employees of any state or local detention facility solely on official state duty, may engage in an activity that aids an agency of the armed forces of the United States in execution of 50 U.S.C. 1541, as provided by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, or any subsequent provision of this law in the detainment of any citizen of the United States in violation of Section 3, Article I, and Section 14, Article I of the South Carolina Constitution."