Washington, Feb. 3 -- Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr issued the following news release:
Our norms are norms because we have respected them as such, not because they were written in stone, but because we believed in them. They are the invisible architecture of our democracy, the guardrails of conduct, decency and restraint that have guided us through peace and peril alike.
But today, those guardrails have been battered. The unwritten rules of governance, once sacred, have been stretched, bent and, in some cases, abandoned altogether. We have learned the hard way that when norms are no longer respected, they must be memorialized in law. Tradition alone is no longer enough to protect the Republic.
It is time to codify not just the outcomes ...