[Political Junkie Too]

Sue to overturn a legally passed Constitutional amendment? That would be a nuclear strike at the heart of the American form of government.

Has that ever been done before? I don't even think there is jurisdiction for that. Once it's passed, the Supremacy Clause makes it out of reach to be overturned by a ruling from SCOTUS. The only thing the SCOTUS could do is find some definitional wiggle room around its implementation, but that should be addressed in the language of the amendment.

Maybe some of the other proposed amendments might have w

-PJ

[Publius]

Has that ever been done before?

With the 27th Amendment, yes. A congressman sued to prevent a salary grab by Congress after the 27th was enacted in 1992, and the courts ruled that he had no standing. Since then, the 27th has been in a kind of legal limbo.