Supreme Court justices from both sides of the aisle agree on this assessment.
"There is no way to effectively limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention," wrote Warren Burger, chief justice from 1969 to 1986. "The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda. Congress might try to limit the convention to one amendment or one issue, but there is no way to assure that the Convention would obey."
"I certainly would not want a constitutional convention," said Antonin Scalia, associate justice from 1986 to 2016. "Whoa! Who knows what would come out of it?"
Nobody knows. And that's the point. As the Republicans see their grip on political power slip, as it did on 2017's Election Day, and may continue to do so in the 2018 and 2020, you can safely bet nothing will be taken off the table to ensure their survival.
Republicans have done many things to rig the rules of elections this decade, from gerrymandering to a deep catalog of voter suppression tactics. While Democrats and Independents were voting Tuesday to reject Trumpism, the GOP in Wisconsin intentionally ignored the public and moved to rewrite the Constitution. Take heed.
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