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Freshman Rep. Madison Cawthorn Schools Pope On First Amendment

And Rep. Boebert has thoughts on our perfect and unchanging constitution.

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Weirdly, this is relevant.(TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images)

It’s been quite a morning for the Congressional brain trust, with dueling tweets from GOP freshmen Reps. Madison Cawthorn and Lauren Boebert ‘splaining to the Real Murikans about CONSTITUTION, HOW DOES IT GO.

First off, the 25-year-old wunderkind from North Carolina would like a word with the Pope on employment practices at the Holy See.

Does Mr. Cawthorn think Vatican City is in Massachusetts? In which godless liberal enclave outside San Francisco or Boston does the good congressman believe it’s located?

He’s also wrong as a matter of American law. But then again, the EEOC’s reach doesn’t extend to the Vatican so … probably best that we move on to whatever this nonsense is.

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Ah yes, the sacred Constitution. Handed down by Jesus on Mount Sinai, unchanged since dinosaurs walked the earth.

If Ms. Boebert could take just a moment out of arranging loaded firearms into a crèche, she might just peruse Article V of said Constitution, which sets out a procedure to “rewrite the parts you don’t like.”

To wit:

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress;

And by “the Congress,” they mean that place where she works thanks to her fellow Colorado voters.

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Or Ms. Boebert can just read this ATL article we wrote in September when Tennessee Sen.  Marsha Blackburn tweeted, “We will never rewrite the Constitution of the United States,” in apparent ignorance of the 27 times we did just that, and having forgotten all those stupid marriage and flag-burning amendments she herself proposed.

Reps. Cawthorn and Boebert will have to up their game if they want to top Sen. Blackburn in the Congressional Dumbassery Olympics. But they’re off to a roaring start!

Wait, wait! Cawthorn’s back for another try.

Don’t sleep on this kid — he’s really going places.

Elizabeth Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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