Ruling the US supreme court isn’t enough. The right wants to amend the constitution | Russ Feingold

A conservative movement to rewrite the US constitution is gaining momentum - potentially plunging the US into a vast legal unknown

In a recent primetime address, President Joe Biden spoke about the soul of the nation" - calling out rightwing forces for their numerous efforts to undermine, if not overthrow, our democracy. Biden's speech was prescient, in more ways than one. In addition to many Republicans promoting the big lie" that the 2020 election was stolen and working to fill elected offices with people ready to subvert the will of the people, there is a conservative movement underway to radically rewrite the US constitution.

The right has already packed the supreme court and is reaping the rewards, with decisions from Dobbs to Bruen that radically reinterpret the constitution in defiance of precedent and sound legal reasoning. But factions of the right are not satisfied to wait for the court to reinterpret the constitution. Instead, they have set their sights on literally rewriting our foundational document.

Russ Feingold served nearly two decades in the United States Senate and is president of the American Constitution Society