The 28th Amendment?

[question everything]

On occasions, I get emails supporting the 28th Amendment.

Snopes puts its accuracy is "Mixed."

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/28thamendment.asp

Anyone knows anything?

[PoliticAverse]

1. As the Snopes article alluded to there has been talk of such an amendment in the past

but it never went anywhere.

Recently Rand Paul proposed such an amendment in the Senate, you can see
it here: http://beta.congress.gov/113/bills/sjres25/BILLS-113sjres25is.xml

His resolution went to the Judiciary Committee...
Status:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/sjres25
http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th/senate-joint-resolution/25

In addition there were 2 related resolutions offered in the House...
http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-joint-resolution/97
http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-joint-resolution/98

[WillyT]

2. Then There's This...

Link: http://www.wolf-pac.com/28th

Main Site: http://www.wolf-pac.com/

[last1standing]

3. I've heard variations of this since the early '80s. Still a bad idea.

n/t

[question everything]

4. Why?

Supposedly it make sure that Congress complies with all the laws of the land, or that it does not craft laws specially for its members.

Yes, I know, seems too good to be true. This is why I am asking.

[last1standing]

5. I was mostly referring to the so-called Congressional Reform Act of 2011...

But the amendment is also a bad idea in my opinion.

The limited immunity of Congress that is provided by Art. 1, Sec. 6 of the Constitution would be nullified by the proposed amendment. The purpose of that clause is to ensure that no member of congress can be held liable for carrying out his/her duty even if that duty is later made illegal or is interpreted as such. The idea is to make sure that congress isn't afraid to do its job for fear of legal retribution.

[question everything]

6. Thank you for the explanation

this makes sense.