[twright]

Article V is likely the loophole he saw. It is however monumentally hard to amend the constitution even with the extreme gerrymandering of today. I was surprised it has actually been done once within my lifetime but I doubt it will happen again without a cataclysmic change of public opinion.

[m-hodges]

There was a lot of consternation about this in 2017: "Article V allows an alternative method of proposing constitutional amendments, which cuts Congress out entirely: two-thirds of the state legislatures can call for a constitutional convention. To be in a position to do this, the G.O.P. needs to gain control of just one more statehouse".¹ At the time, Republicans controlled 33/50 state legislatures.² Today they control 29/50.³

¹ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/republicans-an...

² https://documents.ncsl.org/wwwncsl/Elections/Legis_Control_0...

³ https://documents.ncsl.org/wwwncsl/About-State-Legislatures/...