- A behind-the-scenes effort to force Congress to call a convention to amend the Constitution could end up helping President Donald Trump in his push to expand presidential power — or even run for a third term.
- The effort to amend the Constitution predates Trump’s second term but carries new weight as several members of the president’s inner circle have expressed support for a convention to limit federal government spending and power.
- A draft lawsuit obtained by WisconsinWatch and ProPublica argues Congress must call a convention. Liberal and conservative legal scholars have criticized the arguments in it, calling them “wild,” “completely illegitimate” and “deeply flawed.”
- Some states’ requests for a constitutional convention date back centuries. “It is absurd, on the face of it, that they could count something that had to do with Prohibition as a call for a constitutional convention in 2025,” former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, said.
Harris won 20 states. The traitors need 34 states to even propose a constitutional convention, and 38 states must ratify any proposed amendments.
Repubs can fuck off and die. Slowly, painfully. While I munch tariffed popcorn. Fucking traitors.
After the cloture vote we just saw, it’s less far fetched that just enough democrats will go along with it.
Of course nothing will happen, legally. What will happen is it rally up his supporters and just by the nature of people supporting the ideas, he’ll do stuff on the idea that he has some mandate that will become Constitutional one day. He’s already doing things that are far past his power legally and morally, even going against active judicial demands. Why is he going to wait for the actual legality of it all?
Honestly I felt like this for a long time but Schumer and other dems capitulating has me worried. Civil war is looking like a best case scenario pipe dream the way things are developing. I expect this summer to be intense, crazy, and potentially the last chance ‘we the people’ have to stand up.
It would fail if they tried today. But after 3-7 more years of eroding voting rights, empowering intimidation and misinformation groups, and emplacing loyal people in state governments? I think they could get all 50 states. He’s going to run for a third term regardless because it’s obvious by now that nobody will stop him, but having the amendment in place will be a fitting capstone to his power grab.