You can petition the White House online about anything, and get an official response if you can gather enough signatures. But that doesn’t mean silly ideas won’t be rejected.
In 2011, President Obama’s administration launched a website called “We the People” that allows citizens to send petitions directly to the White House. All you needed was 25,000 signatures in 30 days to get the president, or at least his staff, to consider your request.
At least, that’s what you needed before. After several silly petitions, the number of signatures needed has been raised to 100,000, New York Magazine reports. How silly, you ask? Well, take a look at five weird White House petitions:
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Related Resources:
- White House now requires ‘We the People’ petitions to have 100,000 signatures for official response (The Daily Caller)
- Are Petition Signatures Private Speech? (FindLaw’s Law and Daily Life)
- US Chamber of Commerce Sues the Yes Men (FindLaw’s Legally Weird)
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