Texas Governor Abbott wants to have a Constitutional convention...

[Archae]

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 nation’s 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 state’s 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 state’s 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]

1. What does Lt. Gov. Costello think?

;P

[GP6971]

13. 7 x 13 = 28 n/t

[hlthe2b]

2. Why isn't he in jail, already? What is the status of his own legal charges...?

Gawd, I am sorry for the sane residents of Texas, but this just makes me want to cede them back to Mexico.

[Reter]

4. Jail for calling for a ConCon?

It's not illegal to call for one. In fact it's right in the Constitution.

[hlthe2b]

5. Never mind, I was thinking of TX Attorney General Ken Paxton, who HAS been indicted. n/t

[MohRokTah]

3. This is potentially the most dangerous and disastrous thing that could occur in history. eom

[houston16revival]

6. Totally Agree 10,000,000,000 Recommends

Complete destruction of all the Framers sought under the guise of
states rights and corporate democracy

Dangerous and led by a bird brain

[ananda]

7. And a really mean bird brain too!

..

[madinmaryland]

8. I think he has is having a constitutional convention in his own pants.

Could be a bit frothy.

Dammit. Mixing up the repukes.

[L. Coyote]

9. They want to Bundyize America.

[Alexander Reagan]

10. Reject all petitions for a constitutional convention and follow the Constitution instead

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]

11. Yeah well he say this stuff trying to gin up for a Presidential run one day: it an't going to...

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]

12. No he doesn't. But it sounds real good to the idiots that vote for him and his kind.

[Jim Beard]

14. He will help Cruz win Texas, sad and bad for me.

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.

[Initech]

15. Not going to happen, and it's an extremely terrible idea.