The Heritage Foundation, the prime force driving Project 2025, has strongly endorsed the effort to call an Article V convention.
A Constitutional Convention Would Supercharge Project 2025
By David Super | at
Constitutional Convention
Constitution in the Crosshairs: The Far Right’s Plan for a New Confederacy
By Nancy MacLean and Arn Pearson | at
The rightwing subversion of U.S. democracy is closer than you think.
ALEC Policy Summit Features Push to Legally Force a Constitutional Convention
By David Armiak | at
State lawmakers, corporate lobbyists, and right-wing operatives got together in Scottsdale, Arizona last week for the 2023 States and Nation Policy Summit hosted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The summit — one of the largest annual gatherings of the ALEC faithful, along with the summer meeting — caps off ALEC’s 50th anniversary year.
Mock Constitutional Convention Reveals Far Right’s Vision for Rewriting the U.S. Constitution
By Juliana Broad | at
A troupe of musicians dressed in tricorne hats and other colonial-era attire escorted a parade of Republican legislators and activists to a conventional hall in Colonial Williamsburg, where they would embark on an “immersive experience” — rewriting the U.S. Constitution.
Upcoming Event: The Imminent Threat of a Constitutional Convention
By ExposedByCMD Editors | at
Join the Center for Media and Democracy, the American Constitution Society, and Common Cause for a conversation on the lurking dangers of a constitutional convention.
ALEC Is Using Wolf-PAC to Help the Right Rewrite the Constitution
By Arn Pearson and Juliana Broad | at
In spearheading far-right efforts to rewrite the U.S. Constitution, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is increasingly counting on an unexpected ally: a campaign finance reform group founded during the Occupy Wall Street protests more than a decade ago.
ALEC Lawmakers and Corporate Lobbyists Meet in D.C. to Debate Rewriting the Constitution, Punishing Socially Responsible Businesses, and Protecting Misinformation
By David Armiak | at
The American Legislative Exchange Council meets this week in Washington, D.C., for its annual States and Nation Policy Summit at the four-star Grand Hyatt Washington, where rewriting the U.S. Constitution, “woke” capitalism, and protecting hate speech and misinformation are at the top of the agenda.
Voters Have No Role to Play in the Right’s Vision of a Constitutional Convention
By ExposedByCMD Editors | at
CMD releases “Convention of State Politicians,” a new report documenting how a constitutional convention would give hand-picked GOP delegates supermajority control over any proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
The Right Is Trying to Rewrite the Constitution to Cement Minority Rule Forever
By Alex Kotch | at
Convention of States, a right-wing group led by Tea Party organizer Mark Meckler, says it’s close to achieving enough supermajority control over state legislatures to make sweeping changes to the U.S. Constitution, even though its views aren’t popular.
Fair Elections and U.S. Constitution Come Under Attack at ALEC Meeting
By David Armiak and Arn Pearson | at
The American Legislative Exchange Council kicked off its annual policy summit today with a meeting of its secret working group on election suppression and gerrymandering strategies, and an “Academy” on right-wing plans to rewrite the U.S. Constitution.