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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 31, 2022 20:33:36 GMT -5
Republicans' next big play is to 'scare the hell out of Washington' by rewriting the Constitution. And they're willing to play the long game to win.As former Republican senator Rick Santorum addressed Republican lawmakers gathered in San Diego at the American Legislative Exchange Council policy summit, he detailed a plan to fundamentally remake the United States. It would become a conservative nation. And the transformation, Santorum said, culminates with an unprecedented event: a first-of-its-kind convention to rewrite the Constitution. "You take this grenade and you pull the pin, you've got a live piece of ammo in your hands," Santorum, a two-time GOP presidential candidate and former CNN commentator, explained in audio of his remarks obtained by the left-leaning watchdog group the Center for Media and Democracy and shared with Insider. "34 states — if every Republican legislator votes for this, we have a constitutional convention." The December 2021 ALEC meeting represents a flashpoint in a movement spearheaded by powerful conservative interests, some of whom are tied to Trumpworld and share many of Trump's goals, to alter the nation's bedrock legal text since 1788. It's an effort that has largely taken place out of public view. But interviews with a dozen people involved in the constitutional convention movement, along with documents and audio recordings reviewed by Insider, reveal a sprawling, well-funded — at least partly by cryptocurrency — and impassioned campaign taking root across multiple states. Notably fueling them: success. During an extraordinary few weeks in June, the Supreme Court's three new Trump appointees powered the reversal of Roe v. Wade. They fortified gun rights and bolstered religious freedoms. Future presidents now have less power to confront the climate crisis. Each win is the product of a steady, and in some cases, decades-long quest by conservatives to bend the arc of history rightward. This isn't an exercise, either. State lawmakers are invited to huddle in Denver starting on Sunday to learn more about the inner workings of a possible constitutional convention at Academy of States 3.0, the third installment of a boot camp preparing state lawmakers "in anticipation of an imminent Article V Convention." Rob Natelson, a constitutional scholar and senior fellow at the Independence Institute who closely studies Article V of the Constitution, predicted to Insider there's a 50% chance that the United States will witness a constitutional convention in the next five years. Whether it happens, he said, is highly dependent on Republicans' success winning state legislatures during the 2022 midterm elections. But not everyone in the conservative constitutional convention movement believes such a gathering is so imminent. It will likely take years more work to reach their goal, if they ever do. At minimum, Republicans will need to flip several Democratic-controlled state legislatures and convince remaining GOP holdouts of the necessity for a convention. But during the past several decades, they've made progress. Lately, a lot. And now, they have a plan. Rest of article here: Republicans' next big play is to 'scare the hell out of Washington' by rewriting the Constitution. And they're willing to play the long game to win.
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Post by chiver78 on Jul 31, 2022 20:48:07 GMT -5
why TF do these religious nutjobs think it's remotely acceptable to inflict their religions on the rest of us? I thought Santorum went away after his name became something else via Google search. can he crawl backorder that rock again now?
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Post by Opti on Jul 31, 2022 20:53:39 GMT -5
I should have not opened this thread. I feel like I need an hour or more of happy dog and pet rescue videos to wash it away.
I wish these people would go away or take over Texas and leave the rest of us in the present.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jul 31, 2022 21:00:45 GMT -5
The only nice thing I have to say about this is that this is not a new stance for Santorum. He's not a frontrunner. He's consistently been a religion-first politician since he first made a national debut.
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Post by dondub on Jul 31, 2022 21:25:17 GMT -5
The only nice thing I have to say about this is that this is not a new stance for Santorum. He's not a frontrunner. He's consistently been a religion-first politician since he first made a national debut. As a staunch ex-Catholic (as staunch as you can get) I’m sick of all these fucking Catholics from the SCOTUS, the pedophile cult, and the Santorums of the world.
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Post by busymom on Jul 31, 2022 21:56:03 GMT -5
I should have not opened this thread. I feel like I need an hour or more of happy dog and pet rescue videos to wash it away. I wish these people would go away or take over Texas and leave the rest of us in the present. I've already heard of Texas referred to as "Y'All Queda". Let the crazies have Texas. They'll be crying to rejoin us in time. But, we will have to take in the female refugees who wish to leave, as we should.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jul 31, 2022 23:38:24 GMT -5
any country that can entertain an alliance with Putin deserves the worst kind of fate. their fucking bigoted, anti-gay, anti freedom shit will come to a putrid end. hopefully they won't take the nation down with them.
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Post by NastyWoman on Aug 1, 2022 1:01:41 GMT -5
The only nice thing I have to say about this is that this is not a new stance for Santorum. He's not a frontrunner. He's consistently been a religion-first politician since he first made a national debut. As a staunch ex-Catholic (as staunch as you can get) I’m sick of all these fucking Catholics from the SCOTUS, the pedophile cult, and the Santorums of the world. And here I thought we were YMAM allies if not friends
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Post by dondub on Aug 1, 2022 1:14:12 GMT -5
As a staunch ex-Catholic (as staunch as you can get) I’m sick of all these fucking Catholics from the SCOTUS, the pedophile cult, and the Santorums of the world. And here I thought we were YMAM allies if not friends You are not sick of the Catholic dominated SCOTUS, all the pedophilia, and Santorum style moral police?
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