Oops: ABC News forgets how amendments make it into the Constitution

Well, they tried. Or something.

Anjuli Sastry posted an article at ABC News about colleges attempting to get the Supreme Court to overturn the Citizens United decision. Sastry’s article contains this interesting little nugget:

ABC News civics #FAIL. http://t.co/2iUUXewj7L Original link: http://t.co/6wDKrjfnka

— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) April 11, 2013

LAYERS of painstaking editorial factchecking, folks. http://t.co/2iUUXewj7L Original link: http://t.co/6wDKrjfnka cc @anjuliks

— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) April 11, 2013

Well, the U.S. Constitution does have 27 amendments, but the Supreme Court didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. Amendments make it into the Constitution after they’re ratified by three-fourths of the states.

@gabrielmalor Right before the president signed them all into law.

— Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) April 11, 2013

With an autopen. RT @katherinemiller: @gabrielmalor Right before the president signed them all into law.

— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) April 11, 2013

Heh.