Republicans would need control of at least 34 state legislatures to be able to call such a convention, and 37 to ratify any amendments.

So far they have unified control of 31 state legislatures. Of those 31, 19 have signed onto an application for an Article V Convention put forward by Convention of States, a conservative activist group.

https://www.businessinsider.com/constitutional-convention-conservative-scholar-states-2022-8

https://www.businessinsider.com/constitutional-convention-conservatives-republicans-constitution-supreme-court-2022-7

  • redladadriver [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I guess that works for most people. My first year in the US, I had people showing me nooses from their cars and threatening to lynch me, so our viewpoints might be somewhat dissimilar. I think if you are visibly non-white, or visibly not gender conforming/ hetero, the feeling is quite a bit different. I've always felt since then that it wouldn't take much for the mask to slip if society took a few steps back..

    I stood in line for 7 hours to vote last time, and those voting rights are not coming back. It's a death of social democracy by a thousand small cuts..

    The whole conservative movement's stated goal is to go back to their "good old days", which only were good for white, property owning, males. And they've never stopped working for that.