Not sure if he has the power to do that, or if he could do it but not make it permanent. But if he can, he really should…

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    26·
    14 days ago

    There’s a lot of radical things Biden could do to better shelter the people of the US and indeed the world from the coming storm but, being Joe Biden, he’s going to do none of them.

  • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    15 days ago

    It’s baked into the US Constitution and the framers intentionally made it difficult to ratify amendments to prevent it from being changed frequently on whims (the Constitution should ideally be able to weather any change in the breeze). He could but he’d need 2/3rds of both House and Senate to vote in favor in order to proceed, so he’d need those to be in session to vote, and then ratification is even messier, I think 2/3 or 3/4 of state legislatures need to vote in favor of ratification. Bunch of hurdles that require not only getting all these groups in a room, but also to have well over a majority vote in favor.

    And we all know Marlie Tator Greene would be screaming the whole damn time, so snowball’s chance in hell basically