Right-wing legal interests funded by the megawealthy are routinely feting lower-court judges and treating them to all-expenses-paid trips, which effectively function as a reward system for judges who espouse and maintain hard-line conservative legal views.
I used to imagine, “What would a new constitution look like if we actually invoked the clause to hold another constitutional convention?”
But imagine if we voted to hold one now, when billionaires hold so much power already. I all but guarantee that they’d make sure they had control over a majority of the delegates, and we’d end up with something that was somehow even worse than what we have today.