House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., have been calling state legislators about the map, which could affect control of Congress.

  • hglman@lemmy.ml
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    We are most certainly within a constitutional crisis. You can probably start the timeline at the 2000 Supreme Court ruling where the court said it had no authority to rule, but it did. The republicans blocking the supreme court nomination was also a clear breakdown of the system.

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      Republicans have been forcing a crisis so everyone gets on board with a convention so they can change the constitution.

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        1 year ago

        They are getting farther & farther away from that goal with every election since 2016.