Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Ruling the US supreme court isn’t enough. The right wants to amend the constitution | Russ Feingold | The Guardian

Those involved in this effort have made their radical aims quite clear: to disassemble modern government and the century-old New Deal consensus, returning the country to the troubling, splintered times when the federal government could do little to provide for national welfare or defense.


A convention would also be an opportunity for the right to try to ban abortion in this country, to further whittle down voting rights and to enshrine their interpretation of the second amendment. Put simply, the opportunities for radical rewriting could be nearly endless, given the complete lack of restraint that the constitution puts on an Article V convention...


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/19/conservative-supreme-court-amend-constitution

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