• A behind-the-scenes effort to force Congress to call a convention to amend the Constitution could end up helping President Donald Trump in his push to expand presidential power ā€” or even run for a third term.
  • The effort to amend the Constitution predates Trumpā€™s second term but carries new weight as several members of the presidentā€™s inner circle have expressed support for a convention to limit federal government spending and power.
  • A draft lawsuit obtained by WisconsinWatch and ProPublica argues Congress must call a convention. Liberal and conservative legal scholars have criticized the arguments in it, calling them ā€œwild,ā€ ā€œcompletely illegitimateā€ and ā€œdeeply flawed.ā€
  • Some statesā€™ requests for a constitutional convention date back centuries. ā€œIt is absurd, on the face of it, that they could count something that had to do with Prohibition as a call for a constitutional convention in 2025,ā€ former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, said.
  • kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    22 hours ago

    Good point.

    If you like video format: Finding The Money is a great documentary on how sovereign currency has worked historically, how it works in the US right now, why the national debt and spending deficits arenā€™t (necessarily, by themselves) something to worry about, and what to worry about instead: inflation, physical resources, and labor utilization.

    If you prefer reading: ā€œRetiring the US debt would retire the US dollarā€ by Cory Doctorow is a good short read, and Stephanie Kelton has a book The Deficit Myth which Iā€™ve heard is good too.

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      2 hours ago

      Havenā€™t watched the video, but my prior knowledge and intuition tells me a) this was the special case of the United States hegemony, where the world literally runs on usd, and b) this might not be the case in the multipolar world that Trump is making for some criminal reason.