You just know the Dems don't want to go on record with this vote *L*
Going on record is very powerful. It is one thing that the 2 Johns cannot deny today.
I remember during the hearings on illegal campaign contributions / nuclear secrets / Chinese connections that person after person sent a note from their lawyers saying that they would invoke their fifth amendment rights not to testify. The stupid Republicans must have valued a long lunch over the powerful video and pictures of all those people taking the fifth. They should have made every one of them come to the Senate and personally state their refusal to testify. I think that more than 50 fled the country in addition to the dozens who pleaded the fifth. Most people in the country do not even know about those entire, close to treasonous, events. Pictures get through to people.
A quick lesson in conservatism and responses to judicial activism - a constitutional amendment intended as a "preemptive strike" against judges who may find problems with mere Congressional legislation is NOT a conservative approach. It is a premature application of the pre-emption doctrine to domestic politics.
No one doubts that Congress could pass legislation with the same terms as the DOM Amendment. The argument against this legislation is that some judges will strike it down. Well, it is not very difficult to see the flaws in arguing in favor of an Amendment due to what some judge may do with legislation in the future.
This is theater, nothing more. A waste of your time and money. If the Republicans in Congress were really interested in the issue, they would forget this Amendment stuff and pass a statute. Then, when and if that statute is stricken by a judge and the appeals are taken, it can establish a NEED for a constitutional amendment. As of now, there is no need for an amendment. And it goes to the very nature of conservatism to recognize that we shouldn't do it if we don't need to do it.