Right-Wing Push to Upend U.S. Constitution/Kill Birthright Citizenship
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/birthright-citizenship-article-v-mark-meckler-constitutional-convention-convention-of-states

* 14th Amendment guarantee of birthright citizenship
* Article V of U.S. Constitution
* if majority of state legislatures petition Congress, will be convention to propose amendments

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#StateLegislatures #LegislativeCapture #StateCapture #ISLT
#ConstitutionalLaw #ArticleV
#ChristianRight #ParentalRightsMovement #antiLGBT
#Christofascism #transgenocide

Trump 2.0 will further divide U.S.
https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/donald-trump-states-rights-270314

* conservative obsession w. “states’ rights” to have wide-ranging effects
* public health to anti-2SLGBTQIA+ discrimination

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#ChristianRight #Christofascism #OpusDei #antiLGBT #transphobia #transgenocide #ParentalRightsMovement #Catholicism

MAGA efforts to shred U.S. Constitution
https://www.salon.com/2024/12/16/shredding-the-constitution-california-democrat-fears-maga-effort-to-rewrite-founding-document

* state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-CA) concerned Trumpist could call constitutional convention

A Constitutional Convention? Some Democrats Fear It’s Coming.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/us/a-constitutional-convention-some-democrats-fear-its-coming.html
* Republicans said a constitutional convention is overdue

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Steve Bannon Setting Stage for Trump3 Term
https://newrepublic.com/post/189413/steve-bannon-donald-trump-election-2028

* suggests throwing out U.S. Constitution in Trump’s favor
* keep Trump in power via supposed loophole in the U.S. Constitution

Trump Supporters Hate U.S. Constitution
https://newrepublic.com/post/180312/president-life-trump-backer-says-quiet-part-loud

Trump 2028: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-2028

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Citizens for Self-Governance | ISLT | Article V convention | Convention of states | U.S. Constitution | Mercer Family Foundation | DonorsTrust
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111090040427855200

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U.S. Constitution: Top-down (federal --> state) approaches
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110500657375473264

* Article V convention (Convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution

... an aim of the conservative political nonprofit Citizens for Self-Governance, and their Convention of States initiative, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_Self-Governance#Convention_of_States

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@pluralistic

(2/n)

...not totally specific as each individual case's situation will, naturally, be different.

The same holds true for these specialized government agencies.

Who on earth 🌎 came up with this absolutely witless idea?
The legal basis is, IMO, even thinner than for the trashed #ISLT*.

Do you know which lawyer (probably funded by the #FederalistSociety, I presume) came up with this stupid idea?
//

*
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_state_legislature_theory

@[email protected] @kcarruthers

...Everyone has his price.--And some people are up for grabs all the time (#ClarenceThomas, e.g..)

This said, Volkris is one of the good ones.

This shows, how good the #Federalists are, unsurprising, though, as a legion of the smartest US lawyers is connected to them some way or other.

They do have their intellectual nadirs, too, though. :)
#ISLT was such a non-starter, even for people who are not constitutional lawyers.