This has zero chance of ever, ever making it. Especially in the wake of the more recent SC rulings.
Members of the GOP see themselves in one of two ways right now:
Acolytes of the Lord God Almighty Trump, ready to take their position as a member of the ruling class and enact their far-right agenda on the peasants in Trump’s name.
Future leaders of the Republican party themselves, just waiting for the day they can shape the country in their own image in Trump’s honor once he’s gone. And by “shape the country”, i obviously mean fleece people out of as much money as possible since there’s fuck-all they can do about it.
There is zero chance you’re going to get a single Republican congressman or governor to sign off on a constitutional amendment stripping themselves of the very powers that they either are already wielding or one day hope to wield. Nobody has ever, ever voted away their own authoritarian power.
This had a mild chance of passage before the Trump immunity ruling, when it would have been merely answering questions that the founding fathers left unanswered. Can a President pardon himself? Stuff like that. But now that the SC has taken it upon themselves to answer the questions and essentially give the President uncheckable power, an amendment would no longer be viewed as clarifying the intent of the founding fathers, but would be viewed as stripping the powers of the Presidency. And like I said, good luck getting anybody to vote away their own power.
We can’t pass an equal rights amendment, and we are, if memory serves, ONE state away from a convention of the states. This unfortunately isn’t going anywhere.
Doesn’t mean there isn’t value in introducing it, of course. Just that it’s not a serious, practical proposal.
This has zero chance of ever, ever making it. Especially in the wake of the more recent SC rulings.
Members of the GOP see themselves in one of two ways right now:
There is zero chance you’re going to get a single Republican congressman or governor to sign off on a constitutional amendment stripping themselves of the very powers that they either are already wielding or one day hope to wield. Nobody has ever, ever voted away their own authoritarian power.
This had a mild chance of passage before the Trump immunity ruling, when it would have been merely answering questions that the founding fathers left unanswered. Can a President pardon himself? Stuff like that. But now that the SC has taken it upon themselves to answer the questions and essentially give the President uncheckable power, an amendment would no longer be viewed as clarifying the intent of the founding fathers, but would be viewed as stripping the powers of the Presidency. And like I said, good luck getting anybody to vote away their own power.
We can’t pass an equal rights amendment, and we are, if memory serves, ONE state away from a convention of the states. This unfortunately isn’t going anywhere.
Doesn’t mean there isn’t value in introducing it, of course. Just that it’s not a serious, practical proposal.