Need a law requiring getting a security clearance to run for federal office...also teeth for lying on financial disclosu

[JT45242]

If we had such a law we would never have been subjected to TFG, Boebert, MTG, Gaetz, Santos, etc.

If people with sketchy past would have to undergo the scrutiny that an administrative assistant in the state or justice department do, they would likely not run or be ruled out.

I'd bet a bunch of these criminals would stay away.

They should enforce a law of lying on financial disclosure documents would carry the same penalties as lying on a mortgage application and actually enforce it.

[tritsofme]

1. It would require a constitutional amendment.

[JT45242]

3. Why...

We did not need a constitutional amendment for financial disclosure filing?

Call it an anti-corruption law, which is what it really is.

Other option would be no committee assignments without security clearance.

[tritsofme]

4. Federal law cannot add extra-constitutional eligibility requirements.

Each chamber could make whatever rules they like regarding committee membership.

[RockRaven]

2. The latter one would just be a change to criminal laws, which would

be easier, in theory... or would be if SCOTUS wasn't irredeemably conflicted because of their personal behavior in violating such a law (both past and future). They would declare it unconstitutional for "why? b/c fuck you that's why" reasons immediately.

[marybourg]

5. Great idea!

that way when tRump was in office his administration could have (would have) denied security clearances to every dem candidate.

[doc03]

6. Trump couldn't get a security clearance himself yet he was able to just give

a security clearance to his daughter and her husband and put them in his cabinet. That is crazy.