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Hooeee, [0] is a whopper. If that passed, a bill to amend the constitution, forbidding punitive slavery, would become must-pass legislation. That'd really fuc

• dragonwriter 4y ago
  > If that passed, a bill to amend the constitution, forbidding punitive slavery, would become must-pass legislation Right now, it wouldn't pass with a Republican House, or (given the supermajority requirement to propose an amendment) with a narrowly Democratic Senate. It might not even pass with a widely Democratic Senate; the California legislature failed to pass a bill on this despite a wide Democratic majority. And it wouldn't be ratified by the required supermajority of states, because lots of states are heavily invested in penal labor. Outrage over Florida beign extreme on this might make it help polarize Dem states (via the Dem electorate) against it even where instituttionally entrenched, but that would be offset by the effecg of polarizing the issue on the other side.
  • klyrs 4y ago
    Oh I'm not saying it would be must-pass everywhere. Just in Florida, if they managed to pass the Ultimate Cancel bill.
    • dragonwriter 4y ago
      Oh, I thought younwere suggesting a federal amendment that would render the Florida action invalid, not undoing the action within the Florida system. But, you've got a similar problem in Florida—if the present political alignment is such that such a bill could pass (especially if not by a narrow margin), undoing it is unlikely to be an easy lift, politically.