Row of digital-based slot machines inside a casino in Las VegasĪ slot machine, fruit machine ( British English), poker machine or pokies ( Australian English and New Zealand English) is a gambling machine that creates a game of chance for its customers. For other uses, see Fruit machine (disambiguation) and Pokey (disambiguation). For the album, see One-Armed Bandit (album). A constitutional amendment is a fantasy land.'One-Armed Bandit', 'Slot Machine', 'Fruit machine', and 'Pokies' redirect here. Our politics are so divided these days that we can barely pass a budget, keep the government running, or pay the debts the government has already incurred. The last substantial amendment was the 26th Amendment, which was passed in 1971 and lowered the voting age to 18 once we got caught saying thousands of young men were old enough to kill and die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for the representatives sending them there. And it concerned the hot-button issue of the timing of congressional pay raises. It had been in the works in some form since 17-fucking-89.

The last constitutional Amendment was the 27th amendment passed in 1992, before most on this sub were alive. To act like “oh well, Congress can just pass an amendment and overrule SCOTUS, no big deal” is so disingenuous. This has coincided with Congress becoming a shitshow, and so most “legislating” is now done via Supreme Court decisions and Executive Orders, which are then often reviewed and overturned by the Supreme Court. They have a veneer of nonpartisan judges in their ceremonial robes, but they are political appointees, and it is very clear that they are little more than political actors with dubious ethics at this point.

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