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minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 hours agoYeah, no amendment can be undone in the current climate. Doing it requires a 290 votes in the House, a body that last needed 15 tries to get a 218 vote simple majority to decide who their own leader will be. Then you need a 67 vote majority in the Senate, a body that’s blocked from doing anything by a 60 vote majority to break a filibuster. If by some miracle, both of those things happen, then the change needs to be ratified by 38 states. In the last election, Trump won 31 states, so he’d need 7 Harris states to back him on repealing an amendment. Aint happening.
Yeah, no amendment can be undone in the current climate.
Doing it requires a 290 votes in the House, a body that last needed 15 tries to get a 218 vote simple majority to decide who their own leader will be.
Then you need a 67 vote majority in the Senate, a body that’s blocked from doing anything by a 60 vote majority to break a filibuster.
If by some miracle, both of those things happen, then the change needs to be ratified by 38 states.
In the last election, Trump won 31 states, so he’d need 7 Harris states to back him on repealing an amendment. Aint happening.