[Paine in the Neck]

Sheesh! Does she really expect the courts to intervene and void the 17th Amendment?

While I'm 100% on board with repealing 17A, the notion of a court striking down 17A is so constitutionally ill-concieved I can hardly get my head around it.

[skimbell]

A court can't "strike down" the 17A. Have to have another amendment repealing the 17th--see prohibition.

Another problem some of us have...I live in Illinois. Am I going to get to feeling good about having the pack of criminals who run this state picking our senators? We've got an ex-governor sitting in the slammer right now for trying to sell 0's senate seat.

It's not as "slam dunk" for all as it might appear to some.