Originally given seven years for ratification. Congress reported to change the rules. I filed the first lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of that change of process on behalf of Washington State legislatures more than 30 years ago. We won that case. The rule was, you cant change the rules in the middle of the stream. If you have to have an agreement on the subject matter to start with and you cant change the rules in the middle of the stream, this fearmongering going from the extreme left and right is just nonsense. The power of the convention is no different than congress. You can call a convention for a particular purpose. Congress could propose amendments for a particular purpose. Just because Congress Proposes an amendment on minimum wage, doesnt mean the whole constitution suffers. You are a constitutional lawyer. How many times have you argued before the Supreme Court . Just once. I have filed lots of briefs but only argued one time. You ever think about why the founders pu
And www. Cspan. Org. As candidates what the fairgrounds and speak at the candidates soapbox. Today, scott walker, followed by carly fiorina, and then lindsey graham. Tuesday morning, senator marco john kasich30 and if i look like. On wednesday, rep. Will speak at 11 00. On friday afternoon at 2 30, take cruise. Ze. Ted crui join the twitter conversation at dmrsoapbox. Campaign 2016, taking you on the road to the white house. Washington journal continues. Host joining us is Michael Farris, cofounder of the convention of the States Project. Here to talk about their efforts to amend the u. S. Constitution. Tell us what profit you to get behind this effort. I have been working around government for about three decades. Specifically here in washington d c. I became convinced that the combination of big ceilings eight cities, big media, and y and Big Government the burden of Big Government on us will never be solved inside the city. If we are going to do that, we need to get outside of washi
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Sanders and Hillary Clinton will be calling for significant increase in the minimum wage. Sense because the economy is consolidated. It is not efficiently allocating resources and paying workers what they should be earning in a truly competitive market. Host teddy downey is executive editor of the Capitol Forum here to talk to us about economic populism. For republicans 202 7488001. Democrats 202 7488000. Independent line 202 7488002. Wall street is betting on bush financialns disclosure. A report came out on how much the Bush Campaign and the Clinton Campaign are getting from wall street. I will play some comments that Hillary Clinton made recently about wall street and what she is calling quarterly capitalism. Im not talking about charity. Cleareyed about capitalism. Many companies have prospered by improving wages and training their workers that than yield higher productivity, better service, and larger profits. To cut costs by holding down or even decreasing pay and other investmen
The middle of this fight and you do not want to take sides, but, you know it is an issue. No, im not going to do that. Its too hard. Im going to tell them no. We have a reporter go on meet and isss all the time very careful. You are never as fiery or provocative or interesting as the opinion people on the shows. Tom marty . Marty just to keep it brief, our approach is the same. Basically do not say anything on the shows you would not say in the paper or on our website. Those are the standards we use. Of course its a difficult environment in which to operate. It is like locker room conversation. So it gets tricky with the risk of getting carried away. Bit st to flip this a should the press be more biased by not giving people equal time to Climate Change deniers, it antievolutionists, etc. . To answer thatnt question. One of the people i edit, davenport, the great Environmental Writer you , our and Margaret Sullivan public editor is big into this notion of fault equivalency. To be an unb