What will be next US Constitutional Amendment?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

An amendment to overturn the far-right Citizens United ruling has to pass soon. Has to. Eighty percent of the public supports such an amendment, so what's the excuse not to pass it?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

A smart amendment that I can actually see coming close to passage is one that prevents presidential elections from being thrown into the House, by declaring that if no candidate wins a majority of the Electoral College, then the popular vote winner wins.

But for this to pass, we need a reformist House that doesn't insist on monopolizing all the power.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

An amendment to overturn the far-right Citizens United ruling has to pass soon. Has to. Eighty percent of the public supports such an amendment, so what's the excuse not to pass it?

It won't.  Such an amendment has broad but extremely shallow support and there's no way it'll get the requisite two-thirds of either House or three-quarter of the States.

Numerous states have already endorsed it. I don't know if that really helps it in Congress though.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Does any of this matter much, considering how much our government simply ignores what the Constitution says anyway? Section 2 of the Fifteenth Amendment specifically authorizes Congress to pass laws like the Voting Rights Act, yet the Supreme Court threw out the VRA anyway. And the amendment against congressional pay raises is regularly ignored.