Shows how sheltered I am, but it never occurred to be that same-sex couples from other countries might have trouble traveling in the US because of this. I just thought of this as an American problem.
That said, I started boycotting tourism to the United States in the Bush administration and haven’t been back since. My passport even expired over a decade ago.
If they controlled all three levels of government, they could enact Supreme Court reforms. Each appointee servers for life in an advisory capacity (to align with the Constitution), but only the 9 most recent appointees vote on rulings. Every odd-number year (non-election year), a new judge is appointed. If a judge needs to vacate while they still have a vote, then the most-recently removed judge that’s still available regains the vote until the next appointment.
So they should usually just serve 18 years, but it could be 20-22 years if people die or retire. (The recent average is a whopping 28 years!)
I’m not even American, btw, but this seems like a very common-sense proposal, at least to an outsider. I just googled it and found a whole site explaining it in more detail:
We need a catchy soundbite/slogan to call out anti-trans bigots, but I can’t think of anything that’s short enough and still evocative.
“Punching down on trans youth instead of [fixing real problems]” (Instead of what? Can’t think of anything punchy, no pun intended.)
Actually, in this specific case, there’s some nice repetition with “punch down” and “shut down”. How about:
“Shut down the government to punch down on trans kids”
Okay, let’s see… Not sure if the spell is even activating that glyph sequence. Let’s try casting it again with a purple glow rune there…