PEOPLE ARE WORKING ON A 29TH AMENDMENT ON VOTING RULES AND WILL CHALLENGE CITIZEN'S UNITED IN THE SUPREME COURT

At last legal brains from to[p law schools got to get her to discuss regaining our democracy.  An article by Steven Rosenfeld describes some of the current thinking.  He writes: “A cancer does not cure itself. And this won’t be cured by dinky little reforms, tiny little ideas, tinkering, crumbs at the table, who are being proposed by people who think if we just do a little switch we will magically change this system,” said Harvard Law School’s Larry Lessig, opening A 28th Amendment? conference at UCLA Law School. “What it needs is a movement unlike any we’ve seen since the Civil Rights Movement or the Progressive Movement, taking on a corruption greater than anything we have seen since we ousted George III.”

This movement must be greater than a bill which the do-nothing House of Representatives can squash as they have been doing for the past two years. We are, at last, also seeing some Republicans saying they do no any longer intend to hold the pledge to Grover Norquist as a viable commitment any longer.  Now that the election is over, the threat Norquist held over candidates heads was that they would not get the kind of money they wanted from the backers of the Republican party.  You may all remember hearing an arrogant Norquist a few months ago on national TV saying he had nothing to do with re-elections if people defaulted on the pledge.  It would be the voters who would handle it.  Well, given the number outvotes cast in this past election, that seems to hold less of a threat than it used to do.

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