The Imminent Threat of a Constitutional Convention & Invitation from Nancy MacLean, Ph.D., author, Democracy in Chains

 Friends:

Consider signing up for this important webinar next Tuesday, featuring political historian, Dr. Nancy ,MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains. A radical re-write of the U.S. Constitution is incredibly serious, including, for starters, a diminishment of Fourteenth Amendment rights that guarantee us all equal protection under the law. 

I've read her outstanding book, Democracy in Chains, and have assigned it to my students, as well, over the years. Her book has received significant acclaim Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and Finalist for the National Book Award The Nation's "Most Valuable Book."

Here is a link to one of several Youtube videos where Nancy is featured.I just registered. Forewarned is forearmed.

-Angela Valenzuela

View invitation in browser. Friends,   As you know, I have warned that the Koch network’s checkmate strategy to shackle democracy is a Constitutional Convention. And they are now close to achieving it.   In a new preface to Democracy in Chains just published, I explain the convention strategy and its progress in more detail (along with the mutually advantageous relationship between the Koch network and the Trump administration that produced closer fusion between libertarianism and reactionary populist authoritarianism).    The webinar Tuesday will orient attendees to the mounting danger. If the Republicans manage to gain control of Congress in November of 2024, they will surely convene the convention that Republican-dominated states have authorized – and employ a crooked accounting of state authorizations trumpeted by the Federalist Society to yield the required 34 states.   Please join me, former Wisconsin U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, and other experts for a webinar this coming Tuesday sponsored by the American Constitution Society, Common Cause, and the Center for Media and Democracy to learn more.   The Imminent Threat of a Constitutional Convention The Far Right is waging a dangerous, dark money campaign to force a constitutional convention that could radically rewrite the U.S. Constitution and severely hamper the federal government’s ability to address some of today’s most pressing problems. California Governor Gavin Newsom’s recent pursuit of a constitutional convention to specifically address gun violence could inadvertently advance those efforts. What threats does the Far Right’s strategy pose to our foundational governing institutions and the hard-won progress America has achieved in our pursuit of a truly pluralistic, multiracial democracy?   Speakers: Arn Pearson, CMD Executive Director (moderator)   Russ Feingold, ACS President; co-author of The Constitution in Jeopardy   Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy, Duke University; author of Democracy in Chains   Jonathan Mehta Stein, Executive Director, California Common Cause The American Constitution Society is a State Bar of California approved CLE provider. This event has been approved for 1 hours of California MCLE credit.   As the nation's leading progressive legal organization, ACS is committed to ensuring that all aspects of our events are accessible and enjoyable for all. If you require any accommodations, please contact us at info@acslaw.org.   REGISTER HERE  (If that button doesn’t work, go here to register: https://www.acslaw.org/event/the-imminent-threat-of-a-constitutional-convention/)   Please join us if you can, read up if you can’t, and help alert your networks to this urgent danger and the need to get to work early in the states now to stave off this threat in 2024. The stakes of this election are far higher than people now realize.   Yours in the work, Nancy