Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they'd now oppose her in the wake of Trump's aggressive deportation plans and last week's incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.

Some of the seven Democrats who voted for Noem say they’d now oppose her in the wake of Trump’s aggressive deportation plans and last week’s incident involving Sen. Alex Padilla.

Five days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, seven Senate Democrats voted to confirm Kristi Noem to lead the Department of Homeland Security.

Nearly 5 months later, most of them are critical of her, with some going as far as to say they regret their votes.

“I’m very disappointed. I’m very disappointed in her,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., told NBC News this week. “If I were voting on her today, I definitely wouldn’t vote for her.”

Freshman Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., also said he would vote differently and oppose her nomination if he could do it again.

  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    16 days ago

    If they actually cared about you, Rove v. Wade would have been enshrined as a Constitutional right ages ago

    Yeah, because Congress can just crank Constitutional amendments out effortlessly, no problem, right?

      • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        1·
        16 days ago

        A constitutional amendment requires approval by ²⁄₃ of each house of congress & ratification by ³⁄₄ of states. Can you link to a resource stating when they had the supermajorities in congress to do that?