A PROPOSED VICTIMS’ RIGHTS AMENDMENT is coming up for a vote in the Senate, and I agree with Bruce Fein that it’s a bad idea:

To forgo the VRA is not to cherish victims’ rights less, but to venerate the brevity and accessibility of the Constitution more. Amendments are appropriate only when flexible and adaptable statutes would be insufficient to achieve a compelling objective; or, to protect discrete and insular minorities from political oppression. Neither reason obtains for the VRA.

As Fein notes, Congress has the power to do what’s necessary (if anything is necessary) by statute. This is just election-year grandstanding.