[Publius]

Actually, I have a better idea. Should a state turn itself into a -- (AHEM! COUGH! COUGH!) -- hellhole, the federal government may take the following actions.

• Congress may strip a state of its statehood and return it to territorial status by an act of Congress signed by the president. One star will be temporarily removed from the US flag.
• The former state's congressmen and senators will be expelled.
• The former state will not participate in presidential elections.
• The president will appoint a territorial governor, although the citizens may elect a territorial legislature.
• The territory will elect a constitutional convention to write a state constitution, after which the territory may petition Congress for readmission to the Union.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wonderful idea. But it would probably require 2/3 of the other states to agree that they had turned themselves into a hellhole. And, with about half of those 2/3 already being in hellhole state themselves, they won’t vote to revoke statehood for the fellow hellhole because they know they are next.

[Jim W N]

Congress may strip a state of its statehood and return it to territorial status by an act of Congress signed by the president.

Where's the constitutional provision for that?

Not that that is the reason for cowardly state politics.

The states have turned up basically chicken sh#t because the weak-kneed governors are too worried about losing their beloved federal aid to think about overturning and defeating federal tyranny. NOT ONE STATE will stand up to the feds and risk their precious federal aid to which they have a craving and dependence like a drug addiction.

All a deliberate result of the decrepit and mostly unconstitutional and, therefore, illegal feds.

Whatever the Convention of States can do, it cannot and will not get anywhere near dismantling the 80%+, $3 trillion + unconstitutional portion of the feds which by definition is what has to happen for us to recover our Free Constitutional Republic.

Fight the battle for the repeal of the 17th Amendment. Great. May be even necessary, dunno, but certainly not sufficient, not for the recovery we MUST achieve.

One thing is certain - whatever defeat of tyranny and/or victory for freedom we attempt outside of God’s help will fail.