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Conservative groups pushing for a convention of the states as a way to amend the U.S. Constitution have been spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in state legislative primaries to elect Republican lawmakers sympathetic to their cause.
Nineteen states have called for a gathering known as a convention of states, following a plan mapped out by a conservative group that wants to change parts of the United States’ foundational document. When that number hits 34, a convention would meet with the power to amend the 235-year-old Constitution.
The mailers were part of a $58,000 campaign against the five-term Republican lawmaker.
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The decision whether to prosecute a former president comes fraught with risk. Not prosecuting could signal that a president is indeed above the law. But a case could feed distrust and establish a dangerous precedent.