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Should Nebraska legislators be tested on civics knowledge? New bill says yes.
(nebraskaexaminer.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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It could maybe be useful information if the questions, answers, and test taking process are all public and non-binding.
Like, they get a pen and paper and a quiz appropriate for high school seniors. They're filmed taking it in a classroom, and the results are all public. Different institutions can grade each test.
If you want to vote for the guy who says "the president writes laws" then that's on you.
If conservatives try to make it like old timey literacy tests, it's non binding so it can't so much harm. Might even make them look bad, since it's all public.
i mean i've written a couple laws (well, a couple paragraphs of government publications with force of law. so if you've read my writing on here and ever wondered why it's so hard to make sense of the legal code, that's part of why.)
i'm sure the president has written a few laws in each administration. not just law laws that get submitted through the legislative process but executive orders and regulations and bullshit. there's alot of kinds of laws.