Nancy Pelosi Suffers Serious Injuries -- a Fractured Hip -- After Falling Down a Staircase in Luxembourg

Any hip injury at age 84 is a major cause for concern.

NYT:

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was hospitalized on Friday after being injured while traveling abroad on a bipartisan congressional delegation to Luxembourg, a spokesman said on Friday.

Ms. Pelosi, 84, "sustained an injury during an official engagement," the spokesman, Ian Krager, said in a brief statement that provided no details on the nature of the injury or how it occurred. He said she was admitted to a hospital for evaluation.

Ms. Pelosi tripped going down marble stairs at the Grand Ducal Palace and took a hard fall, according to a person familiar with the incident who was not authorized to comment and spoke on condition of anonymity.

People close to Ms. Pelosi in California and Washington, D.C., speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak for her, said the former speaker fractured her hip when she fell. They said doctors were confident the damage could be repaired with a routine operation, but it was not yet clear whether that would be done in Luxembourg or in the United States.

After Mitch McConnell's recent fall, and Joe Biden's Lived Experience as a Vegetable-American, the demand to implement term limits via a constitutional amendment is going to pick up steam and might actually pass.

You can't pass a law imposing term limits, because the Supreme Court has ruled that the "qualifications" for federal office in the Constitution are complete and can only be modified by amendment. As there are no term limits written into the Constitution, it requires an amendment to impose them.

But the amendment process isn't such an impossible barrier to action when the public wants change. Every month we're seeing problems with the gerontocracy.

I'm not a big proponent of term limits but it just might be we'll finally see them.

posted by Ace at 06:28 PM

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