Monica Lewinsky penned on op-ed Monday calling for a series of constitutional amendments, including age limits for elected officials and a ban on presidential self-pardons. In a piece in Vanity Fai…
I mean, she’s not wrong, but she knows you start by getting 290 votes in the House, right? The same group of people who couldn’t get 218 to decide who their own leader was?
That’s actually not the only route to getting a constitutional amendment. If 2/3 of the state legislatures in the country call a constitutional convention they can amend the Constitution independently of the Congress.
I mean, she’s not wrong, but she knows you start by getting 290 votes in the House, right? The same group of people who couldn’t get 218 to decide who their own leader was?
Just say you don’t want Biden to pardon himself for his crimes and let the GOP go wild and vote it in.
There is a 0% chance red states support any positive amendment to the Constitution, so any amendments are immediately dead in the water.
I dunno, they’d probably support an amendment banning abortion, or preserving the 2nd amendment…
That’s actually not the only route to getting a constitutional amendment. If 2/3 of the state legislatures in the country call a constitutional convention they can amend the Constitution independently of the Congress.
Though the likelihood of that is also very slim.