Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Act of 2023

## Act of the Chawopolis Palace

Imperial Coat of Arms of the Empire of Chawosauria

## Piece of Legislation

### Long Title

*An act to honor Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and condemn their unjustifiable executions and point out the contradiction of the U.S. federal government's commitment to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution*

## Legislative History

* **Passed with unanimous consent by the** 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government **on** January 11, 2023**.**
* **Received permission from** Independent Checkers **on** January 11, 2023**.**
* **Signed into law by** General Secretary Linghu Xiaoliang **on behalf of** Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker **on** January 11, 2023**.**

The **Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Act of 2023**, also known as the **Rosenberg Act**, is a Chawosaurian law that is named in honor of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple who were executed by the United States due to suspicion of pro-Soviet activities during the Cold War in 1953. The Rosenberg Act was easily passed by the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government and on behalf of Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker because he couldn't sign the Rosenberg Act into law himself due to medical treatment for stomach cancer, his second in command General Secretary Linghu Xiaoliang signed the Rosenberg Act into law. The Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Act of 2023 was passed in response to the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives' launch of a select committee to battle the Chinese Communist Party in the second Cold War, making comparisons to the House Un-American Activities Committee that went after American leftists who were suspected by the HUAC of pro-Soviet activities on American soil, resulting in the prominent execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

In the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, the Republican Party won bare control of the U.S. House of Representatives as part of the effects of the party's humiliating performance in the entire nationwide election cycle that year. The Republican Party had been gaining an unpleasant image of being the party that caters to fascism and right-wing extremism, a traditional enemy of communism and socialism, and the Republican Party had suffered this image since the party's accomplice in the violent storming of the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, as part of a right-wing extremist plot to overthrow a democratically elected government and replace it with a fascist dictatorship headed by U.S. President Donald Trump who lost the 2020 U.S. presidential election and had tried to get the results overturned as soon as possible before the inauguration on January 20th. On January 6, 2021, Congress was in session to officialize Biden's victory over Trump, the pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol to stop it from happening, however the insurrection eventually went nowhere and Biden was certified as the winner anyway, forcing Trump to accept his imminently expiring term. Biden becomes President on January 20, 2021, and when the Rosenberg Act passed, Biden had been President since 2021.

Association with the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol and Donald Trump as well as the Republican Party's unpopular positions on domestic issues, such as abortion following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, had all cost Republicans the midterms that year, and the sole victory Republicans had out of 2022 was flipping control of the U.S. House by a slim margin. Republicans had been hawks at confronting communism since the Presidency of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, though President Reagan eventually became warm to the Soviets in his second term, and the Republicans launched a select committee to confront China.

The amendments and provisions of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Act of 2023 wasn't known until January 14, 2023 because the law itself easily passed before amendments and provisions except the part that honors the slain couple, were even added, and the Chawosaurian Communist Party begin to add provisions after being passed and no provision can be added after June 19, 2023, which is when the Rosenberg Act becomes law and it would be the 70th anniversary of the Rosenberg couples' executions. Ironically, the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Act escalates the Vatican Scare, a Chawosaurian moral panic towards Catholics and the influence of the Catholic Church on society, the reason it is ironic is because the Rosenbergs lost their lives because of a moral panic. The Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Act invokes Major Amendment XI of the Imperial Constitution of the Empire of Chawosauria, which forbids both politicians and citizens (politicians are citizens, too, but they govern citizens) from being loyal to the Vatican and Jerusalem. The Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Act of 2023 establishes the Parliamentary Committee on Vatican Espionage, which will try and convict alleged Vatican spies in the Chawosaurian world.

## Background

In the American midterm elections in 2022, the Republicans won back control of the United States House of Representatives, but their victory in the lower chamber was strongly impacted by the embarrassing performance of the party overall in the nationwide midterm cycle as Republicans failed to win the winnable seats in the U.S. Senate, lost to every incumbent Democratic Senator who was up for reelection, and even failed to keep one of their own Senate seats, losing it to a Democrat, and the Republicans lost ground in state governments. The Republicans' nationwide underperformed caused the House Republicans to underperform too, winning only a narrow majority of 222 seats to the Democrats' eventual 213 seats. The Republican performance in the 2022 midterms were embarrassing because in the U.S., midterms see the major party that does not control the Presidency cruising to a landslide victory, known as a wave. In 2022, the Democrats had the White House, President Joe Biden, who had low approval ratings since the collapse of Afghanistan in 2021 and only got worse as Americans grew frustrated with inflation and crime waves, and there were questions about Biden's age and mental state.

When the Republicans officially took over the lower chamber of Congress on January 3, 2023, they struggled to elect a Speaker for four days, a circumstance never witnessed by the American public since 1923, but the election of the Speaker was eventually resolved after wrestling with 14 failed ballots. After that, the Republicans were officially on their way to do work. One of which was a select committee to challenge China in its international relations and competition between the U.S. and China, both countries are superpowers, economic and trading partners, but world power adversaries. The United States wishes to spread democracy and human rights, while China in comparison preferred authoritarianism and only few to no human rights, stoking cold war like tensions between the two big nations.

In the Chawosaurian media, which has an anti-American strain, at least traditionally, they reported the U.S. select committee on China and immediately compared it to the infamous House Un-American Activities Committee, a congressional committee that went after assumed pro-Soviet activities in the United States during the Cold War. Like U.S.-China relations, the United States had similar tensions with another communist superpower, the Soviet Union, China's de-facto superpower predecessor in the communist world. Both the United States and the Soviet Union band together to crush the fascist alliance led by Nazi Germany in the second world war, and they won in 1945 and gained control of the new world order, however, the United States and the Soviet Union had two opposing visions, the Soviets saw this as an opportunity to spread communism globally, while America wanted to spread western democracy, this stoked paranoia and tensions between the two superpowers and this invoked the Cold War.

In the United States, fear of communism and the far-left, or the left-wing just in general, have spread like wildfire, this rolled the red carpet for a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, who accused everybody left and right of having communist sympathies, resulting in the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954. where countless people were accused of communism, among them Ronald Reagan, future President of the United States who ironically became a Cold War hawk in his early presidency, famously calling the Soviet Union "an evil empire". But there was a couple who were caught in the nationwide hysteria towards communism, a couple named Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, they were arrested and convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet government and sharing with the Soviets valuable American information, and they were executed on June 19, 1953. However, the American public quickly had enough of the witch hunt of communists, and it had a political affect on the 1954 congressional midterm elections when Democrats benefited from this fatigue by narrowly winning control of both the House and the Senate from Republicans, who were pretty much running the witch hunt. Despite this and the end of the second red scare, distrust of communists still continue in America and the Cold War went on to last until 1991.

## Provisions

The provisions of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Act of 2023 states and it follows:

* An act to honor Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and condemn their unjustifiable executions and point out the contradiction of the U.S. federal government's commitment to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
* An act to condemn and respond to the United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party created by the 118th United States Congress.
* Gives the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace the authorization to establish the Parliamentary Committee on Vatican Espionage.
	+ The Parliamentary Committee on Vatican Espionage has the authority and responsibility to:
		- Try and convict suspected Vatican spies and Catholic clergymen based on review and evidence
		- Provide information based on evidence and review.
		- Release information on suspects to the public for transparency purposes.
		- Oversight national security on Vatican aggression.
	+ Requires the Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria to provide information on Vatican aggression and other responsibilities:
		- Declare Roman Catholics a national security risk.
		- Declare Roman Catholics a flight risk.
		- Require strict and harsh background and profiling checks on Roman Catholics.
		- Vetting and profiling of government employees and applicants of potential ties and loyalty to the Vatican in full compliance to Major Amendment XI.
		- Full enforcement of Major Amendment XI of the Imperial Constitution of the Empire of Chawosauria.
	+ The requirement of the prevention of Catholic emigration.
		- The suspicion that Catholics are emigrating with Chawosaurian information.
		- The need to safeguard Chawosaurian security.
* The act gives the Empire of Chawosauria Intelligence Agency to collect data on Catholic communities in Chawosauria.

## Passage into Law

The Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Act of 2023 received unanimous consent on January 11, 2023, and it was approved by the Independent Checkers, who check the constitutionality of legislation. Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker was able to sign the bill himself due to going through medical treatment for stomach cancer, so his second-in-command, General Secretary Linghu Xiaoliang, signed the bill into law under Parker's direct orders.

## See also

* 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government
* Chawosauria in the Cold War
* Religious Freedom in Chawosauria
* Vatican Scare