Nothing stopping both houses from just reducing the threshhold because fuck you that’s why, getting Trump to sign off on it, then getting backing by the Supreme Court. Sure, that’s completely at odds with the Constitution, but who’s left to enforce it?
We already know that at least half the states will just blindly go along with it and say it’s to control immigration, or just because MAGA, or because fuck you that’s why. Threaten the rest with withholding of all federal funding until they get on board and watch how many fall in line. Sure, that’s even more highly illegal, but again…who’s going to stop them? Laws don’t mean shit if there is nobody willing or able to enforce them.
They used a 1600s law from before we were a country to rationalize overturning Roe v Wade. This SCOTUS had a supermajority of corrupt Justices willing to twist the law into whatever the Federalist Society wants it to say.
They have the supreme court, which basically allows them to interpret laws anyway they want. Why bother with an the work of changing laws when they can just reinterpret them?
With 2/3 of the Senate, 2/3 of the House, and 3/4 of the states’ legislatures.
LOL, how cute. You think that still matters.
Nothing stopping both houses from just reducing the threshhold because fuck you that’s why, getting Trump to sign off on it, then getting backing by the Supreme Court. Sure, that’s completely at odds with the Constitution, but who’s left to enforce it?
We already know that at least half the states will just blindly go along with it and say it’s to control immigration, or just because MAGA, or because fuck you that’s why. Threaten the rest with withholding of all federal funding until they get on board and watch how many fall in line. Sure, that’s even more highly illegal, but again…who’s going to stop them? Laws don’t mean shit if there is nobody willing or able to enforce them.
All they need is 5 SCOTUS justices to agree the text means whatever.
Then you need a different SCOTUS session to disagree or all of that to fix the text
They used a 1600s law from before we were a country to rationalize overturning Roe v Wade. This SCOTUS had a supermajority of corrupt Justices willing to twist the law into whatever the Federalist Society wants it to say.
With SCOTUS the Constitution says whatever they say it does. We had a chance to fix that situation and we blew it.
Republicans have just over 50% of the Senate and the House. They don’t have a 2/3 supermajority.
They’ll still pass the legislation by voting in a block, but they can’t push it through without a vote if they don’t have a supermajority.
They have the supreme court, which basically allows them to interpret laws anyway they want. Why bother with an the work of changing laws when they can just reinterpret them?