In this political climate, where there is no Republican will to take on ANY difficult issues ... this will not happen.
Won’t matter. The SCOTUS would declare the Constitution “unconstitutional”.
It’s time to tell them to shove it.
Never happen.
Good to hear. 37 states have already signed their own DOMA and that’s just enough to ratify an amendment.
And if Congress won’t propose the amendment, then 34 of statehouses can propose it per the US Constitution.
A Con-Con would be really scary stuff. Every nutball and activist would glom onto it like Silly Putty. We’d end up with amendments for a “right” to health care, a “right” to free college, a “right” to two weeks paid vacation, etc.
Corrupt Congress should have proposed an amendment to the Constitution which defines marriage as a one man, one woman union instead of making constitutionally questionable federal DOMA law in first place. (But thank God that they didn’t since words like man and woman have no meaning anymore.)
But frankly, given the country is divided in all issues, essentially a war between good and evil, the Constitution is essentially unamendable at this time, the Article V 3/4 state supermajority required to ratify a proposed amendment nowhere to be found at this time imo. So is Rep. Tim Huelskamp just politicking?
If that’s what we gotta do, that’s what we do
Isn’t the amendment route what the people in California tried only to have a homosexual judge decide it was unconstitutional to change the constitution? Once the people no longer rule, that cannot rule themselves back into power.
The most recent Constitutional Amendment adopted that was submitted to the states took over 200 years. There is no time limit here like the gloomy crowd who think in short time frames.