Could a freedom of privacy Constitutional amendment pass in the current environment or hurt the GOP?

[andym]

Might be useful to try and at least get opponents on record being against a key liberty. Would make any SC decisions trying to strip decisions based on privacy as an implied right, such as Roe v Wade, Griswold v Connecticut etc, moot.

Nevertheless, the attempt would be a great way to destroy the propaganda that the GOP is the party of liberty.

[PoliticAverse]

1. Not if people know it's really about abortion rights. n/t

[drray23]

2. it's impossible to pass any constitutional amendment right now.

and given the polarization of this country it never will be again.

The requirements for it are 2/3 of senate and house as well as 3/4 of the state legislatures.

The last one (27th) which changed the way congress is renumerated passed in 1992, 202 years after being first proposed.


Don't hold your breath.

[andym]

3. The attempt would be useful to get the GOP politicians on record opposing a fundamental liberty

It would play hell with their marketing and create cognitive dissonance for their followers.

[Hortensis]

4. It's far more than abortion rights, it's a huge barrier to authoritarian

control of individuals by government in many aspects of their lives.

Not. A. Chance.

I've forgotten the details, but the constitution allows states to choose various ways to approve or deny an amendment, I think at least 4 basic types, and most of them have always enabled the governor and/or leaders of a faction in power to rig the outcomes to their choice.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

5. I'm not sure there will ever be another constitutional amendment.

The threshold is just too high.

[TheRealNorth]

6. Only if it covered the privacy that GOP'rs care about....

Ie. to influence elections with millions of dollars without knowing where the money came from

To threaten or defame political enemies anonymously

To openly engage in neo-nazi, brown-shirt demonstrations and not have your identities posted on the web (however, if you sign a recall politician against a Republican candidate, your info will be posted in a searchable database).