The attempt to pass this amendment will fail, since there is simply no way that 2/3 of both the House or Senate (let alone both) will pass it. However, the exercise is a good one in that it will:
1) Put the Dems on record as being for instability; and
2) Put the Dems on record as being nakedly for winning and having power at all costs.
How ‘bout president Trump proposing to expand the SCOTUS to 15... and then he gets to name six new conservative judges. How you spose the Libtards would react to that? LOL!
If it wern’t for hypocrisy the DemWits would have no ‘crisy at all!
“The attempt to pass this amendment will fail, since there is simply no way that 2/3 of both the House or Senate (let alone both) will pass it. However, the exercise is a good one in that it will:”
Don’t be so sure about it. I can see someone like Hoyer rallying dems to vote for this. It’s clear the radicals will be against it, however it can present an opportunity to dem leadership to weed out the radicals from the party.
One thing main stream dems are scared to death over is the radical lefts grab for power. They know that before the radicals get around to destroying conservatives, they will have to consolidate power within the party.
Understand an amendment doesn’t NEED any CONGRESSIONAL INVOLVMENT!
The 2/3 is needed to propose an amendment, which then puts it to the states to ratify... is required of Congress... However an amendment can be proposed by a constitutional convention which requires 2/3 of the states to vote to hold.... So in theory you can propose amendments without any CONGRESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER.
CONGRESS CAN BE CHECKED... I am not advocating this route, and to date not a single amendment to the constitution has been introduced by this manner, but an amendment can be introduced even of the house and senate don’t want to to it.
This is the FINAL check on the government BY THE PEOPLE.
If you assume the last presidential election were a break on supporting a convention the nation is only 7% points away from being able to hold one... assuming every Trump state agreed and every Hillary state didn’t.
I don’t really advocate this route, because you are going to get all kinds of kooky amendments put out there if there ever was one, but the reality is the constitution does provide the ability to be modified without a single vote in the house or senate.
Call an Article V convention and bypass congress.
Yes. Sufficient to convince perhaps a quarter of Republicans, who should already know better anyway. Sufficient to convince anyone so deep in perdition that they voted for Clinton? Perhaps not.