BOMBSHELL! SENATOR TED CRUZ SAYS THAT US SENATE VOTE WILL NEUTRALIZE FIRST AMENDMENT (VIDEO)

Now The End Begins ^ | May 31, 2014 | 1 Comments | NTEB NewsDesk

[lbryce]

OBAMA’S REICHSTAG FIRE MOMENT TAKES THE STAGE

Sen. Ted Cruz dropped a bombshell, as you will see in this video, where he emphatically states that the United States Senate this year will vote on a Constitutional amendment to effectively repeal the First Amendment. This is Senate Joint Resolution 19 that Se. Cruz is referring to. It proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections.

Cruz: Obama To Repeal The First Amendment from Now The End Begins on Vimeo.

This vote will give the Congress the plenary power and unlimited authority to regulate political speech. The door that they plan on using revolves around campaign finance reform, but will extend to all areas of political speech across the board.

“When you think it can’t get any worse, it does,” Cruz said. “This year, I’m sorry to tell you, the United States Senate is going to be voting on a constitutional amendment to repeal the First Amendment.”

“I am telling you — I am not making this up. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has announced the Senate Democrats are scheduling a vote on a constitutional amendment to give Congress the authority to regulate political speech because elected officials have decided they don’t like it when the citizenry has the temerity to criticize what they’ve done,” he added.

[wku man]

Constitutionally-ignorant conservative crowd? That sure hasn't been my experience. Not to say there aren't conservatives who are illiterate on the Constitution, but Leftists are far worse. I certainly wouldn't characterize those conservatives as a "crowd", but the Constitution-phobic Leftists are legion in number.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

There are 27 amendments to the Constitution. Approximately 11,539 measures have been proposed to amend the Constitution from 1789 through January 2, 2013.

  --U.S. Senate, Statistics & Lists

And ten of those were passed immediately after the Constitution was ratified. Not much worry of this passing. The mere proposal of such an amendment could do grave harm to the Democrats (at least I can hope, can't I?).

[Publius]

Here's my usual boilerplate to explain how Article V works.

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The amendatory process under Article V consists of three steps: Proposal, Disposal, and Ratification.

Proposal:

There are two ways to propose an amendment to the Constitution.

• The Congressional Method requires the House and Senate to pass an amendment by a two-thirds majority.
• The Amendments Convention Method requires the legislatures of two-thirds of the states to petition Congress to call a Convention for Proposing Amendments. The states may request a single-subject convention or a general convention open to all subjects. Once the two-thirds threshold is reached, Congress is required to set a time and place for the convention.

Article V gives Congress and an Amendments Convention exactly the same power to propose amendments, no more and no less.

Disposal:

Once Congress, or an Amendments Convention, proposes amendments, Congress must decide whether the states will ratify by the:

• State Legislature Method, or the
• State Ratifying Convention Method.

The State Ratifying Convention Method has only been used twice: once to ratify the Constitution, and once to ratify the 21st Amendment repealing Prohibition.

Ratification:

Depending upon which ratification method is chosen by Congress, either the state legislatures vote up-or-down on the proposed amendment, or the voters elect a state ratifying convention to vote up-or-down. If three-quarters of the states vote to ratify, the amendment becomes part of the Constitution.

[Publius]

Harry Reid can’t change it. It’s hard-coded in the Constitution itself.

[ClearCase_guy]

My fear is that the Dems will take a quick vote and then "deem" that it has been ratified.

I'm sure the media would jump up and say, "Well, there it is! It's done! You can't undo it now!!"

[Hostage]

The Senate can propose amendments to the Constitution and that is what they are planning to do.

Ted Cruz is spot on in calling this out because the democrats and their republican establishment surrogates will make this amendment look like it’s focused only on campaign financing. Senator Cruz is educating people that it goes far beyond campaign financing to the suppression of free speech in effect neutering the First Amendment.

Ted Cruz is fine.

[JPG]

It would need 67 senate votes and 290 house votes.

Not gonna happen.

[Publius]

It can’t be done that way. And besides, the House must also pass it by a two-thirds margin before it can go out to the states for ratification.

[ClearCase_guy]

But it can be done that way ... in a dictatorship.

[Publius]

We aren’t in a dictatorship yet. Cool your jets, please.

[Mortrey]

They keep pushing and pushing and pushing...but, I don’t think they realize they are beating a hornet’s nest with a very small stick.

Pride (in what they THINK they can do to Americans) will be their downfall. Idiot, arrogant “representatives”.

[Hostage]

Uh no...Reid changed the filibuster rules for DC Court appointees.

THe 3/4s of states, 2/3s of Congress required is hard-wired into the Constitution and can’t be changed by Reid or Obama.

[fatima]

Thanks.

[TBP]

Liberals, especially Obama, have never believed in the First Amendment.

[molson209]

It would need 67 senate votes and 290 house votes.

Not gonna happen.

keep saying that to yourself , if they are talking about it they have something up their sleeve

[Publius]

The votes simply aren’t there. This is being done for political show and to score political points, no other reason.

[demshateGod]

And when that bill fails, they’ll get the bill they really wanted, R’s will high five, and we’ll lose more liberty.

[Hostage]

The danger is people will think it’s about campaign finance when Senator Cruz is educating that it’s much much more. And it is much much more.

Thank you Senator Cruz!!!

[Lmo56]

2/3 of BOTH Houses in Congress are required to propose - OR 2/3 of the state legislatures [thats 34 states].

3/4 of the states to ratify [thats 38 states].

So, just 13 states can block ratification - kind of ironic since there were 13 original colonies that ratified the Constitution ...

[Zathras]

I suspect this is the latest long term push being floated by the RATS.
They already are pushing nationwide to eliminate the Electoral Collage.
The RATS in power now have a 40 year plan and this will be part of it.