Hypothetically, if Republicans in Congress had impeached and convicted Obama and admitted to doing so solely because he is Black, could SCOTUS find a way to nullify the impeachment as unconstitutional?

The Constitution gives the House the sole power of Impeachment, and the Senate the sole power to try impeachments, so would this mean that there is no way for a court to review an impeachment, even if it was for a blatantly unjust reason?

Is there a way that the 14th amendment could be used to invalidate an impeachment?

Perhaps "sole power of impeachment" could be interpreted narrowly to mean that only the House can initiate an impeachment, but a court could still stop an "unconstitutional" impeachment?

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u/VegetableEscape0 — 5 days ago
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TTC bus: "Welcome to Toronto. Sorry...not in service."

Perfect encapsulation of the state of Toronto transit.

u/VegetableEscape0 — 19 days ago
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Why are all 510 streetcars short turning at Queen's Quay due to the World Cup?

It's good that the TTC is increasing 509 service due to the World Cup, but why did they have to short turn all the 510s at Queens Quay instead of continuing to run them to Union as normal? Now people have to transfer at Spadina/Queen's Quay and board a northbound 510 at the obscure off-street Queen's Quay loop. What does this have to do with "improving service reliability" as the TTC claims?

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u/VegetableEscape0 — 26 days ago
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How will East Harbour Transit Hub and Waterfront East Rapid Transit change streetcar service?

The new WERT line will go east on Queen's Quay and south on Cherry Street to Ookwemin Minising. The 504A will be extended south from Distillery Loop to Ookwemin Minising. What's happening to the 504B? Is that going to be diverted from Broadview Station to East Harbour? Will the TTC create a 504C branch so that one branch of the King streetcar goes to Broadview as it does now, and the other goes to East Harbour? But if someone wants to travel from Broadview to East Harbour by streetcar it makes no sense to force them to transfer at Queen. So would the TTC create a new Broadview streetcar that replaces 504B service?

Also, why not extend the WERT line further south to Cherry Beach?

Will the WERT be a separate line from 509 Harbourfront? Or will it just be an extension of the current 509 line? I think it'd make sense to have three branches: 509A between Exhibition (or even Humber loop once the Waterfront West line is built) and Union, 509B between Cherry Beach and Union, and 509C between Exhibition/Humber and Cherry Beach, bypassing Union.

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u/VegetableEscape0 — 28 days ago
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Made a fantasy TTC map - if the streetcar lines were subways

507 Long Branch and 508 Lake Shore eliminated due to redundancy. Also horrifically not to scale lol.

u/VegetableEscape0 — 1 month ago

If Amundsen's final tent was 2.3 km from the South Pole, and the closest one of his team reached on skis was 180m from the South Pole, is it accurate to say they actually reached the South Pole?

According to Wikipedia, Amundsen's team spent painstaking efforts with the technology they had to try to ensure they actually reached the geographic South Pole. He reached the location he believed the South Pole to be and then sent team members to ski out in perpendicular directions for 10 miles in order to try and "box" the pole. Modern analysis has determined that his final camp was about 2.3 km from the South Pole and a team member reached within 180m of the South Pole during one of the skiing trips.

Is this close enough to accurately say he reached the South Pole? As an analogy, if someone tried to summit Mount Everest and turned back 180m, or even 18m, from the summit, would it be accurate to say they reached the summit? If someone ran a 42km marathon and stopped 180m or 18m from the finish line, would it be accurate to say they completed the marathon?

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u/VegetableEscape0 — 1 month ago

Is mpox considered globally endemic now?

Mpox was historically endemic in certain African countries, but in 2022, it spread around the world primarily in the MSM community. Despite extensive vaccination efforts, it was never fully stamped out and continues to circulate at low levels globally. So, is it accurate to say that, starting in 2022, mpox changed from being endemic in Africa to being endemic worldwide?

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u/VegetableEscape0 — 1 month ago
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Which TTC streetcar stops would you remove?

One reason people complain makes the streetcars too slow is that there are too many stops. So, are there any specific ones that should be removed?

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u/VegetableEscape0 — 1 month ago
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What if the TTC operated 900-series express streetcars?

The TTC has express bus routes, but no express streetcar routes. The TTC's streetcars are notorious for being slow for several reasons, one of which is that there are too many streetcar stops too close together. So what if half the streetcars served all stops, while the other half were turned into express streetcars that only stopped at major intersections?

EDIT: Thank you to the comments for making me realize how dumb this idea is because express streetcars would get stuck behind local streetcars and can't pass them because they travel on tracks.

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u/VegetableEscape0 — 2 months ago
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The recent track replacement work at Bay and College forced the 506 to divert onto Dundas between McCaul and Parliament, which is a massive detour. Meanwhile the 501 also had a massive diversion onto Dundas and Gerrard between Parliament and Coxwell. The TTC should build lots more north-south tracks on downtown roads such as University, Bay, Yonge, Church, Jarvis, Sherbourne, Carlaw, Jones, Greenwood, etc., so that the east-west streetcar routes can have much shorter diversions during road construction.

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u/VegetableEscape0 — 2 months ago