The dramatic governing changes Democrats could make if they take power

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Senate Republicans have coalesced around voting on President Trump’s eventual nominee to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, infuriating Democrats, who don’t have any procedural tools to stop them.

What they do have is a strong chance of regaining the majority in November, and they are threatening consequences then for what they see as Republican hypocrisy on taking up a nomination in an election year. They are talking about using that power to enact dramatic changes to the rules of how the Senate and the Supreme Court operate, and even the methodology for who wins the presidency.

“Nothing is off the table,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) told fellow Senate Democrats over the weekend about what might happen if Republicans fill this seat, cementing the court’s conservative tilt.

But chatter about these changes was already happening among Democrats well before last week. There were nearly a dozen proposals floated to this end during the Democratic primary, based on a few longstanding Democratic frustrations that a minority of the country has picked the current Senate Republican majority (which then approves who sits on the Supreme Court), and the fact that recent Republican presidential wins have come through the electoral college despite popular vote losses.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-dramatic-governing-changes-democrats-could-make-if-they-take-power/ar-BB19lcyW?li=BBnb7Kz

[Moostache]

1. I'm in for ALL of these ideas...

Ending the Senate filibuster rules

Why play by rules that only one party gives ANY deference to at all?
McConnell already did this to pack the courts and get justices through...so fuck them, all bets are off.

Adding more Justices to the Supreme Court

We have an illegitimate Court as of he Garland heist by McConnell and his GOP toadies.
This court, as currently configured and soon to be 6-3 politicized body is not up to the task of the founders of an apolitical body dispassionately determining the Constitutionality of laws. It is reduced to a partisan rubberstamp for ideologues and it has to go completely. I would not simply add justices, I would push to dissolve the court and then see below for further remedies...

Granting statehood to Puerto Rico / Washington, DC

I would simultaneously move to COMBINE the Dakotas and Carolinas into single states to maintain an even 50 states and 100 senators. The shift would be a minimum of -2 GOP, +4 Dem, but more importantly, it would dilute the influence of the population depleted states with undue influence and outsized representation. There is no way Wyoming should have 60X the power per senator as California, ever!

Getting rid of the electoral college

One of the last remaining vestiges of slavery and an anachronism of the highest order.

Instituting term limits for Supreme Court Justices

Absolutely. After first dissolving the current court, a new system should arise utilizing the 13 circuit courts to all nominate a justice and setting up a rotation of justices to have 9 hearing cases per session and the other 4 on hiatus. Each justice would serve for a maximum of 16 years (or the extent of a pair of 2-term presidencies). The idea of lifetime appointments into a politicized body was NEVER the intent of the founders in any reading of history, period.

[Bettie]

2. All of those look like they would

protect against lawlessness and restore some balance.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

3. Yes, I think all of those are good ideas n/t