Any criteria, moreover, must not only define the margins of the establishment prohibition, but must respect the succeeding clause of the First Amendment guaranteeing religion's free exercise.
The proposed amendment must then be held over for consideration by the succeeding elected legislature, where it must again be passed by a majority in each house.
Liberal Democrat, Labour and pro-European Conservatives are expected to prevent the amendment succeeding, but a large vote in favour would embarrass David Cameron.
But if the GOP succeeds in adding the amendment in the full committee, the lifting of the ban will have been effectively undermined.
The ACLU estimates that 1.4 million felons would be eligible to immediately get their right to vote back if the amendment succeeds.
As the government succeeded in resisting amendments to the Energy Bill, it took a step back from the UK's world-leading climate change targets.
In the Lords, Lord Ashley succeeded with an amendment that raised the threshold for entitlement for incapacity benefit.
Badly conceived bills die a thousand political deaths — in the appropriations process, in the states, through electoral retribution, in the executive appointments of a succeeding administration and ultimately in amendment and repeal.
For the plan to succeed, the Legislature would first have to pass the amendment in two consecutive sessions.
In her order, Baker also said she found "a significant possibility" that the inmates would succeed in their Eighth Amendment challenge to the Arkansas lethal-injection procedure.
The two succeeded in getting the matter put up for a referendum; in 1991, voters approved the victims' bill of rights amendment.
