I’m reading elsewhere that we don’t need an amendment. A simple piece of legislation passed by a simple majority in both the house and the Senate would do the trick. According to what I read this AM on Western Journalism, this doesn’t even need the President’s signature.
Of course, try telling that to your Congressman and you get a long, convoluted explanation of Senate and House “rules”. And even Cruz has told my Congressman that the “rule” currently in play that only one piece of legislation per year passes out of the Senate with 51 votes is a good rule. Everything else needs 60.
According to my Congressman, they were haolding open their one 51 member vote for repealing Obamacare until SCOTUS struck down the Burwell case.
Something very dark is going on in DC, and we voters are in line to be snookered again.
Here is the article to which I refer. I can’t post a link because I received this in email from the Western Center for Journalism:
Republican Leaders Are Lying To You. Congress CAN Nullify The Lawless Supreme Court Decree That Two Men Can Marry... And They Can Do It Tomorrow!
This news might come as something of a shock to some of you, but Congress has the CLEAR and UNDENIABLE authority and power, under Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution of the United States, to NULLIFY the recent lawless decree by five unelected black-robed tyrants that elevates perversion to the status of marriage.
All it takes is a simple majority vote in the House and the Senate and, once it is done, the courts have no power to rule on it and Barack Obama has no authority to veto it. If Congress votes... IT IS DONE.
So why isn’t Congress taking a vote right now? ... Why have so few in the media brought this simple Constitutional remedy to your attention? Senator Ted Cruz said it best: “Sadly, the political reaction from the leaders of my party is all too predictable. They will pretend to be incensed, and then plan to do absolutely nothing. That is unacceptable.”
Cruz is right. Their lack of action is UNACCEPTABLE, but you have the power to fix that right here and right now by calling our elected officials on the carpet. It only takes a simply majority of the House and the Senate to nullify this lawless Supreme Court ruling, and we want to see a vote NOW.
Constitution, Article 3, Section 2:
“...In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...”
No mention of the President.
If both chambers have to vote on the proposition, then the proposition must be presented to the president. Article 1, Section 7 ...
Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States ...
Right on the mark.....have faxed my Congressman, Martha McSally, and will call her office....this unconstitutional and lawless act must not stand.