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To shove his right-wing fantasies into the Constitution.
Texas governor joins GOP calls for constitutional convention
PAUL J. WEBER, The Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sought to lure Republican support Friday for calling the first U.S. constitutional convention since 1787, a new a priority for his administration that has bemoaned federal courts blocking state laws over gay marriage, abortion restrictions and voting rights.
Conservative calls for states to get together and ratify new amendments to the Constitution are hardly new. Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio has even vowed to push for a convention if elected, though the idea is generating little buzz in the 2016 presidential race.
Abbott is now hoping his weight as governor of the nations biggest conservative state can revive momentum in an enduring but perennially unattainable dream of some Republicans. His vision also goes beyond the most common GOP desire for a convention to tack a federal balanced budget amendment onto the Constitution and outlines a flurry of new state protections that would nullify federal laws and weaken the U.S. Supreme Court.
One of his nine proposals would require a supermajority of seven justices out of nine to invalidate any state law.
The Supreme Court is a co-conspirator in abandoning the Constitution, said Abbott, the states former attorney general and a former Texas Supreme Court justice. Instead of applying laws as written, it embarrassingly strains to rewrite laws like Obamacare.
Texas in recent years has been a recurring defendant in major cases before the Supreme Court. In March, the court will hear oral arguments over the states sweeping abortion restrictions that would leave Texas with fewer than 10 abortion providers, down from more than 40 in 2012.
http://wbay.com/ap/texas-governor-joins-gop-calls-for-constitutional-convention/
KamaAina
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GP6971
(31,205 posts)hlthe2b
(102,357 posts)Gawd, I am sorry for the sane residents of Texas, but this just makes me want to cede them back to Mexico.
Reter
(2,188 posts)It's not illegal to call for one. In fact it's right in the Constitution.
hlthe2b
(102,357 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)houston16revival
(953 posts)Complete destruction of all the Framers sought under the guise of
states rights and corporate democracy
Dangerous and led by a bird brain
ananda
(28,876 posts)..
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Could be a bit frothy.
Dammit. Mixing up the repukes.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Alexander Reagan
(1 post)A main problem many Americans have with a constitutional provision convention is that it could be a runaway convention. This is true despite item specific, general subject matter, and convention restrictive petitions as there is no Article V provision giving any such authority to the States or to Congress
Should an amendments convention, as the Article V Convention advocate organization Convention of States likes to call it, implying that is all it could ever be, were ever to be convened, it is inherent in this type of a 50 State convention to be a runaway convention should the properly convened delegates of it choose it to be so as precedent was set in 1787. And this is further true under the God given Doctrine of Self-Preservation as expressed in the Declaration of Independence which reads, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these ends [i.e., to secure the Rights of Men], it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government. That is what the American colonial revolution against England was all about. To deny this Right now, no matter what the underlying motive of an Article V Convention is, is un-American.
More at http://hubpages.com/politics/Deception-Used-in-Attempt-to-Change-Our-Constitution
http://hubpages.com/politics/Article-V-Convention-Used-in-Attempt-to-Change-Our-Constitution-2-of-2
marble falls
(57,204 posts)happen. Three quarter of the states will never ratify a new constitution if it mainly mainly benefits Texans.
Right now Texas pays $.94 for every tax dollar it gets.
Iggo
(47,565 posts)Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)I can not believe the people Texas elects.
There was a guy who manipulated his name to JESSIE JAMES and ran for State Treasurer. I don't know how many years he was there but it was his decision to retire.