Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear sharply criticized Senator Mitch McConnell and the Senate at large over the Kentucky Republican’s prolonged absence from Congress due to health issues.
Beshear, a Democrat, said on Friday that he still had little information about the condition of McConnell, who was hospitalized in mid-June and released from a rehabilitation center earlier this month.
“I’ve received absolutely nothing, and that’s the same that the people of Kentucky have received,” Beshear told MS Now. “This is why the Senate feels broken. These guys don’t think that they have a boss when the people of Kentucky are their boss. They don’t feel like they are accountable whatsoever.”
Beshear called on McConnell to make a video or call into a news show to update the public about his health.
He’s the executive. Doesn’t he have law enforcement capabilities of some kind? Can he launch an investigation? These democrats are humiliatingly weak.
Can the Governor of Texas unilaterally declare Jasmine Crockett as dead and appoint someone else to hold her seat?
There would be all kinds of abuses if Governors could do as you suggest.
Maybe?
He was “sent home” but that’s likely a DC residence.
If he said he was in Kentucky, then Kentucky authorities can (and should) dona wellness check.
If he said he was in DC, then Kentucky would have to request DC authorities do it.
A Governor only has authority in their state…
What crime do you think would apply here?
Edit: Don’t just throw out stuff you heard on law and order; provide the applicable legal code for the state law.
Unless the point was to encourage the governor to abuse his power like Trump does.
Fraud. Theft.
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/man-lived-with-wifes-corpse-for-7-to-10-days-texted-her-family-from-her-phone-to-conceal-her-death-police/
I’m assuming this is a joke about McConnell being dead, but, as a sidebar, holy hell $500k bond for a non violent crime?
It’s not a joke, there’s a very plausible chance he’s dead, or seriously injured and not getting proper medical care.
If he’s dead, and the people around him are hiding it, then that is a very serious crime. If he’s seriously injured and not getting proper care, that’s elder abuse.
So when there’s a plausible chance, law enforcement can do a welfare check. They show up at the residence, and investigate.
Like, it’s a normal thing…
The reason I found a specific case in Kentucky like that, is to show that even just not reporting was a serious felony. The amount of bond is likely because that dude most likely killed his wife and that’s why he didn’t report her death, also that it involved him sending messages pretending to be her. With McConnell releasing public messages to his constituents, if those aren’t him it’s even more serious.
I invite you to really think of the implications of your suggestion.
Start at “send law enforcement to search a residence to see if a corpse is in the house being abused”.
Edit:
Weird that he wasn’t charged with that.
Have you thought of googling something you didn’t know about instead of trying to walk down the entire path of why it’s a law?
https://thelawdictionary.org/article/what-is-a-police-welfare-check/
Again, it’s completely normal to charge and hold someone for a lesser charge that’s provable when they’re suspected of a more serious charge, that is honestly the norm in the American legal system…
You seem to be completely ignorant of how this all works. If you start asking questions you’ll learn more, most people will just give up because you’re trying to argue when you don’t know what you’re talking about
What does someone else gain by helping you understand something?
From your link:
Internet conspiracies aren’t “reasonable grounds”.
I invite you again to consider the implications of your suggestion.
It is a miscarriage of justice to hold someone against their will for a crime they haven’t even been charged with by charging them with a lesser crime and then setting a bond that doesn’t reflect the crime they’re being charged with. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, it was outrage that KY is still allowing it.
Sorry bud, I gave you more than enough chances
Who needs a crime? He could call for a wellness check.
I know this is difficult for people to read, but online conspiracies aren’t evidence.
He’s supposed to represent the people of Kentucky and hasn’t done so or even been seen in public in months. That’s not a conspiracy and a wellness check is perfectly reasonable.
Can Beshear do anything about it either way? It kind of seems like the answer is no.
Taxation without representation
Go dump some bourbon in a lake?