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That’s Not How Constitutional Amendments Work

January 18, 2025 Amendments, That's, work, Constitutional0 comment

Presidents typically spend their final days in the White House taking care of odds and ends: issuing pardons, signing some last executive orders, thanking staff. Joe Biden is doing all of those things—and also trying to change the Constitution on his way out the door. This morning, Biden declared on X that “the Equal Rights Amendment is now the law of the land.” Well, there you have it: The Constitution has a 28th amendment, and women’s rights have been enshrined across the country. Or not. Biden can’t change the Constitution,…

A Constitutional Crisis Greater Than Watergate

December 1, 2024 crisis, than, Constitutional, Greater, Watergate0 comment

Updated at 10:17 a.m. ET on December 1, 2024 For more than four decades before Donald Trump assumed the presidency, the FBI director was a position above politics. A new president might choose a political ally as attorney general, but the FBI director was different. An FBI director appointed by Richard Nixon also served under Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Carter’s choice remained on the job deep into Reagan’s second term, when Reagan moved him to head the CIA. Reagan’s FBI appointee served through the George H. W. Bush…

Trump flips the script after Democrats describe US as in a ‘constitutional crisis’ – Washington Examiner

May 13, 2019 script, Democrats, after, Washington, crisis, flips, Constitutional, Examiner, Trump, Describe0 comment

Trump flips the script after Democrats describe US as in a ‘constitutional crisis’ Washington Examiner President Trump on Sunday pushed back against Democrats who have described Washington as being in a “constitutional crisis” over the White House’s refusal … “us democrats” – Google News