No, of course I don’t want women to lose their right to vote. (At least not unless I run for office and poll so badly with women that it becomes a campaign strategy.) What I really want is to see the legal lunacy this unleashes.
Let me begin with the obvious: The year is 2016. Probably even later by the time this circus would begin. It’s hard to imagine a rational person arguing that women don’t inherently have the right to vote, even without an amendment specifically stating so. Hint: The wording of Amendment XIV makes women citizens if they were born in the U.S. And there is nothing in the Constitution that specifically bars women from voting. Or that specifically gives men the right to vote. (Or white people, or gentiles, or any other group.) So obviously this would result in a court challenge.
Can you imagine the “lawyer” who accepts the case to argue that adult women without felony convictions don’t have voting rights? Who wouldn’t want to watch this guy flail around in court?
But it only gets better if he hangs on through the appeals process. Unfortunately there would be no cameras allowed in the Supreme Court to show us how he presents his case to Justices Kagan and Sotomayor.
And please, please, please, God...let Ruth Bader Ginsberg be on the court when this happens! Notorious RBG will eat this man for breakfast and spend the afternoon session picking her teeth with his bones.
What would be the legal strategy here? Argue that women are qualified to sit on the highest court in the land, but not to elect a city commissioner? Or does our attorney go all out and question the legitimacy of whatever women are on the court at the time?
Yes, Repeal the 19th is incredibly stupid. But it would be so entertaining...