Congress Catch-All | Laken Riley Act is first bill passed by House

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StrangePackage said:
Which could be attained by passing the law without the ridiculous rider which permits States to sue the federal government for making decisions explicitly within their Constitutional remit and explicitly outside those of the states.

This should be titled the Ken Paxton Act, because that's who it's for.
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Yes, lots of bills could be passed without ridiculous add-ons. I wish they were. Unfortunately, that's often not how it works.
 
finesse said:
The question is whether that is all there is in the bill. On the surface, I understand what you're saying ,but you're not known for either the depth or breadth of your opinions. Where's the hook?
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Politics is often involved in getting bills passed. The result of that is often bills with undesirable add-ons. Not surprisingly, what is or isn't an "undesirable add-on" is dependent on your politics.
 
StrangePackage said:
There is a demonstrable correlation between frontal lobe damage (like, say, a stroke) and increased conservatism.
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Yep. Studies have quite literally shown that people with damage in areas that control complex thought and self regulation are more conservative.

“Specifically, we compared the political orientations of patients with frontal lobe lesions, patients with amygdala lesions and healthy control subjects. Lesion type classification analyses revealed that people with frontal lesions held more conservative (or less liberal) beliefs than those with anterior temporal lobe lesions or no lesions. Additional analyses predicting ideology by extent of damage provided convergent evidence that greater damage in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex—but not the amygdala—was associated with greater conservatism. These findings were robust to model specifications that adjusted for demographic, mood, and affect-related variables. Although measures of executive function failed to mediate the relationship between frontal lesions and ideology, our findings suggest that the prefrontal cortex may play a role in promoting the development of liberal ideology.“

Toward a neuropsychology of political orientation: exploring ideology in patients with frontal and midbrain lesions - PMC

How do people form their political beliefs? In an effort to address this question, we adopt a neuropsychological approach. In a natural experiment, we explored links between neuroanatomy and ideological preferences in two samples of brain lesion ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 
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