Raptorpat

I watched the full 34 minutes (the trump team cut the hour quite a bit short) and it was pretty hostile I think the "open air" racism campaign begins today

yerite

https://x.com/wontpacdown/status/1817953425558270183

Slightly different. NY requires the state constitutional convention ("concon") ballot question every 20 years. It started out with general public support, our state constitution is horribly long with a lot of old/outdated/irrelevant content. But there are a lot of important protections in there too so all the institutional stakeholders from across the spectrum universally opposed it and collectively ran scorched earth campaigns against it.

There are several conservative efforts to trigger a constitutional convention that are surprisingly far along, the plan being to take advantage of the fact that post-2010 Republicans have controlled a disproportionate amount of state legislatures. Here's an article from 2022: https://www.businessinsider.com/constitutional-convention-conservatives-republicans-constitution-supreme-court-2022-7

now HERE's the nightmare fuel https://www.commoncause.org/our-work/constitution-courts-and-democracy-issues/article-v-convention/

Fox News interview didn't go well https://x.com/harryjsisson/status/1818030161734025467/

Roy Cooper out of the veepstakes https://x.com/RoyCooperNC/status/1818080476273201442

A. 2/3 of both houses of Congress propose an amendment, and then 3/4 of state legislatures ratify the amendment B. 2/3 of state legislatures vote to convene a constitutional convention

the terms would be staggered, so one seat would become vacant every two years like clockwork. haven't seen any proposal text itself, just the Biden WaPo op-ed, so not sure how the transition would work. would be funny it they just phased out the next longest-serving justice every two years until the cycle completes, in which case the first three out the door would be Thomas, Roberts, and Alito.

happy birthday ric

happy birthday @jayrider128 now let's all get in line to bite your shiny metal ass

https://x.com/selina_dedalus/status/1817624852276424868

happy belated birthday @renjifan and @Mini_ghost420

Aktshually that's the French flag

https://x.com/Scaramucci/status/1816928720894169307

https://x.com/JaxPeel/status/1816644750855807295

I didn't think his oval office speech was halting, I just had to jack the volume up from 16 to 50 to hear him

she hasn't even been the de facto nominee for a week and doesn't have a VP yet, pivoted a whole campaign operation on the spot. gotta let it set in a week or two, or probably through their convention so they're on equal footing.

https://x.com/KamalaHarris/status/1816643863131652527

https://x.com/ElieNYC/status/1816153274673680494

happy birthday @3ngag3!