A top California Democrat is moving to rescind his state's call for a constitutional convention, fearing that it could be used by President-elect Donald Trump and his allies to push through far-right revisions to the country's founding document, The New York Times reported.
“I do not want California to inadvertently trigger a constitutional convention that ends up shredding the Constitution,” state Sen. Scott Wiener told the Times. He is introducing legislation Monday that would retract his state's previous seven calls to amend the country's system of government amid concerns that Republicans, who control all three branches of the federal government and a majority of state legislatures, would use a convention to roll back the rights of women and racial minorities.
