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Exposed: ALEC's Plan to Force a Constitutional Convention At last week’s 2023 States and Nation Policy Summit, ALEC doubled down on its novel legal strategy for strong-arming a constitutional convention: claiming that unrelated and outdated state resolutions should be counted to meet the threshold of the 34 state calls needed to hold a constitutional convention. By this logic, the threshold for triggering a convention was reached in 1979, making Congress legally required to convene a constitutional convention immediately. U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) presented the bill he introduced to do just that, claiming Congress has “failed in its constitutional duty to count applications and call a ‘Convention for proposing Amendments.’” “Working with my friend and our fearless leader in the House, Speaker Mike Johnson, I’m going to continue to push to pass this important legislation to stave off a sovereign debt crisis, to rein in the reckless and wasteful spending in Washington, and to return power back to the sovereign states,” Arrington said. You can read the full article here | |
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- Daily Beast: “Tax Docs Reveal Tucker Carlson Is Finally, Truly Out at The Daily Caller”
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