11 May 2026

We can do it... they're making it hard, but there are a lot more of us now

I say stuff like this all the time, but it bears repeating. The Fascists have been trying really hard to screw up the upcoming midterm elections, including with highly politicized court decisions, but we have a huge majority right now, so we have to just overcome their stolen advantages. And here's my approach to restoring democratic governance, assuming we are able to defeat Trumpism across the board in 2028, which is simply a "must-do."

Expanding the court to the same number as appellate circuits (13) has historical precedent, logic, and sound reasoning behind it. Term limits or age limits for justices are--at best-- questionably constitutional, but court expansion by STATUTE has precedent and is clearly constitutional. The court would risk losing all legitimacy if they tried to resist it. So my solution is: ADD 2 states (Puerto Rico and DC), increase the court to 13, pass a comprehensive new Voting Rights Act with anti-gerrymandering provisions, carefully written by Constitutional scholars, and include in it explicit statement that the Supreme Court lacks jurisdiction to overrule it (for which there is also precedent, and Roberts himself wrote about it in the 80s).

Then get to work on a substantive justice and economic agenda to end corruption and give Americans a new NEW DEAL. And massive anti-corruption and anti-conflict of interest reforms for the executive, judiciary, and Congress (no stock trading, for example). Make it so everyone understands--once again-- that you don't go into government to get rich, because the regulations and ethics provisions just don't allow it. Period.

If Democrats did all these things, they could completely change course and set up a new era that the Republicans (or whatever replaces them) will be unable to upset for 20 years. We CAN DO IT, but we have to really work at it. It may even eventually be possible to fix the disproportion of the Senate and end the Electoral College with hugely popular Constitutional Amendments, but the current Constitution makes that extraordinarily difficult.

 

  

 

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