- A behind-the-scenes effort to force Congress to call a convention to amend the Constitution could end up helping President Donald Trump in his push to expand presidential power ā or even run for a third term.
- The effort to amend the Constitution predates Trumpās second term but carries new weight as several members of the presidentās inner circle have expressed support for a convention to limit federal government spending and power.
- A draft lawsuit obtained by WisconsinWatch and ProPublica argues Congress must call a convention. Liberal and conservative legal scholars have criticized the arguments in it, calling them āwild,ā ācompletely illegitimateā and ādeeply flawed.ā
- Some statesā requests for a constitutional convention date back centuries. āIt is absurd, on the face of it, that they could count something that had to do with Prohibition as a call for a constitutional convention in 2025,ā former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, said.
Can you, uh, remind everyone why that is? I obviously know, but for all those people that need to hear it again?
Good point.
If you like video format: Finding The Money is a great documentary on how sovereign currency has worked historically, how it works in the US right now, why the national debt and spending deficits arenāt (necessarily, by themselves) something to worry about, and what to worry about instead: inflation, physical resources, and labor utilization.
If you prefer reading: āRetiring the US debt would retire the US dollarā by Cory Doctorow is a good short read, and Stephanie Kelton has a book The Deficit Myth which Iāve heard is good too.