> How far to the right do you have to go when you start considering the Constitution is shaky? Not that far? For example, the GOP in Texas's Senate passed a la

> How far to the right do you have to go when you start considering the Constitution is shaky? Not that far? For example, the GOP in Texas's Senate passed a law requiring the Commandments in public schools. I find that hard to view as anything other than direct contempt for the Establishment clause. The only pragmatic reading of such a law, should it become law, in today's political climate, is that it exists solely to be challenged, on the hopes that the Supreme Court will … IDK, strike that portion of the 1A or otherwise reinterpret it as completely ineffectual? The Establishment clause is also quite clear (though I grant, not as clear as the 16A, but not as vague as say, "A well regulated Militia" makes the 2A). That's not the only such law, or portion of the Constitution, either, though I'd certainly say it's one of the more clear ones…