https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/10/10/a-constitutional-convention-would-supercharge-project-2025/
Although ALEC and its allies speak in generalities about what they would seek to accomplish in a convention — using vague terms such as “fiscal responsibility” and limiting “federal overreach” — they clearly see an Article V convention as a crucial vehicle for enacting the same radical agenda that drove Project 2025. Indeed, ALEC serves on the advisory board for Project 2025.
These intentions are evident from the enormous resources ALEC’s funders are devoting to pushing for an Article V convention and from the amendments proposed by the mock conventions they have convened. The most recent of these was the Convention of States’ (COS) August 2023 mock convention in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, bringing together mostly Republican legislators from 49 states...
Project 2025 seeks to undermine civil rights, demanding an end to energetic enforcement of the rights of people seeking to access abortion clinics (at pp. 557-58) and redirecting the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department to attack diversity programs (at pp. 560-62). COS’s “Federal Legislative & Executive Jurisdiction Proposal 1” goes even farther, eliminating the constitutional authority for most civil rights laws by sharply restricting Congress’s authority to regulate interstate commerce to “buying, selling, or transportation of commercial goods and services across state lines.” All existing laws and regulations exceeding this authority, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, would be nullified in two years.
The key to preventing a new Republican majority in Congress from calling an Article V convention is to deny them enough state applications to be able to make a credible claim that two-thirds of the states have applied for one, as the Constitution requires. Although the ALEC-allied groups are well short of two-thirds of the states on any honest measure, ALEC and one of the lawyers involved in the 2020 fake electors scheme have been devising exotic legal theories that would allow them to count states’ old, moot, and unrelated convention calls toward the 34-state threshold.
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