The Imperial Presidency, Part 2

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If that happens according to that timetable and it takes as long for the amendment to pass as it took the Twenty-first Amendment to pass, it doesn't give His Orangeness the satisfaction of being elected fair-and-square. If he cares about the rules (based on past performance, that's a mighty big "if", but maybe somebody convinces him to do it that way for how he'll look to other world leaders), he'd want the amendment process to start at least two months earlier than in that timetable. (But not too much earlier, so that his opposition doesn't have time to ready a defence if they're taken by surprise.)

Would he go with State ratifying convention ratification instead of State legislature ratification? While that wouldn't be a complete avoidance of the state legislatures -- New Mexico law says that the members of the legislature are the convention -- it would provide more control over the timetable. Also, ratifying conventions were used the only other time that an amendment repealed another amendment.

I was aware of the timetable involved but honestly I thought the presentation in one year was a little more interesting than the slow-moving trainwreck it could be in reality.  The state ratifying conventions is not a thing I have ever heard of, so I dunno?  If states don't have actual procedures in place for this, then legislatures could still balk, and a congressionally mandated procedure could force it through a different procedure? The whole thing here is about manufacturing legitimacy for something unconstitutional, and I don't actually want to carry through that plan, so I don't want to think deeply about the best way to go about it.

Trump vows to declassify Amelia Earhart files -- that's a funny way to pronounce "Jeffrey Epstein files"

ICE detains superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district -- NAILED HIM!!! Finally, these criminal immigrants won't be taking all our school administration jobs from Americans ... unless the Americans want to run a think tank instead: Oklahoma schools boss Ryan Walters, who called for Trump Bibles in classrooms, resigns.  And of course, the Trump Bible is fundamentalist about the US Constitution as well: ‘God Bless the USA’ Bibles being distributed in Oklahoma schools are missing 17 amendments

On the topic of the bingo card, Trump would head Gaza ‘board of peace’ in new postwar plan: construction for Gaz-a-Lago won't have problems getting permits, it seems