Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry earlier this week supported a resolution that would repeal the 17th Amendment and strip American voters of their right to elect U.S. Senators.
The joint resolution, introduced by Texas Congressman Keith Self, aims to “restore the Founders’ original vision for the United States” and return the selection of senators to state legislatures.
“Our Founding Fathers designed the Senate to protect state sovereignty and act as a check on federal overreach. If senators are supposed to represent their states, then the states should choose them. Repealing the 17th Amendment will restore that constitutional balance and make the Senate more accountable to the people of Texas and every other state in the union,” Self said.
it cant be repealed, it must be a new amendment to nullify the 17th. like the 18th, prohibition, was nullified by the 21st.
that will require:
this is all political theater
Its Overton window work. Just like the roe v wade overturning, they are talking about the impossible now so they can you their base get used to the idea and in the long run make real pushes for it. The Rs have always been transparent if you listen to them. Horribly self centered that they are.
I mean, we’ll see what the SCOTUS has to say
I can see the headlines already: “Roberts Court declares the Constitution unconstitutional”
They’ve already done that with the 14th amendment.
Edited for crash out: I am Australian. I have never been to the US and never intend to go there. I should not know this much about your fucking politics. I know all of your supreme court justices’ names while I couldn’t name a single one from our High Court. I suppose it’s my own fault for engaging with US political news so much, but on the other hand I do need to stay informed about what’s happening there because your fascist regime is interfering in my country’s politics as well.
We absolutely are. But modern Australia was built as a colonial project. Both the US and Australia are an extension of that centuries old Anglo project to extract the wealth of the world.
It’s all one global fascist project, and the Australian oligarchs are more than happy to play along
Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person and
ownerhuge donor and policy “consultant” to our rapidly-rising far right party One Nation, visited Mar-a-Lago last year and since then ON has risen rapidly in the polls and bots shilling the party have flooded social media. So yes, the oligarchs all over the world are part of the same fascist project.yeah, we learn from you learn from they learn from us learn from it’s all one big incestuous circle of evil.
gotta look close to home, at your neighbors to find the good. i just found out one of mine has a Mystery Machine! Like from Scooby Doo! In take-it-to-a-show condition (because that is where i saw it). he didn’t realize i recognized him from my local farmer’s market because he was in Show Mode. it was cool.
and the militia bit in the second amendment has now come to mean individual, explicitly argued by the originalists, which is wild
It’s probably spamming your feed too. I tried getting away from this country early on last year, but even when I was abroad I couldn’t get away from this country’s news…
the insanely partisan right wing supreme court wont save us.
Yes… But who’s it theater for? I don’t think it’s for his base, so then it’s a form of terrorism to make people comply. Start talking to the working class peers you have. Make the concept of organized resistance one that people are comfortable with.
Isn’t there another one about being a citizen if you are born here? How’s that one holding up?
Except enough Democrats might vote for it too. Their fighting against this cant be assumed. Somehow theres always just enough Dem votes for the republicans to get their way on key votes. Need 4? heres 5 Dem voters. Need 20? heres 22 Dem voters.
It happens all the time.
I know you mean to say it can’t be repealed by an Act of Congress, but the word “repeal” also applies to constitutional amendments. This is what the text of Amendment 21 said:
Not “nullified”. Repealed.