If @JoeBiden wins & dems get senate, they *must*:
1. Pass law that Electoral College electors be named based on Congressional district victory, with 2 named on statewide majority. No more "winner take all."
2. Expand SCOTUS to #27Justices, to match structure of lower courts.../1
..neither requires Constitutional amendments. Court will have to be expanded first because otherwise politicians in robes Alito and Thomas will lead a strike down of electoral college rule. THAT law perfectly matches structure of Article II, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3, which.../2
...assigns electors based on number of Congressional districts and senate seats. It is irrational to argue those numbers were just picked out of the air. Why have elections based on districts and senate numbers if they are not allotted that way?.../3
...this way, electing the president is EXACTLY like electing for Congress: I vote for one representative in my district, and one statewide. There is literally no rational for winner-take-all, and it actually contradicts all logic and fidelity to a democratic republic. As for.../4
...expanding the court to #27Justices. This would not be court-packing. It would not be abuse. It would be about eliminating the politicization of the court. The @SenateGOP would have the right to *recommend* 9 justices, Biden would nominate 9. The standards for both.../5
...would be an appeals court judge with a minimum of 5 years experience in that position, and no evidence of ANY participation in ANY political effort, including by a spouse. (This would, for example, have prohibited clear politicos like Alito and Thomas, who had a history of...
...political efforts.) Finally, each nominee must achieve a recommendation from the ABA, to doubly insure no hacks are named. If those rules are violated by the GOP, Biden does not nominate the improper selection and tells GOP to come up with one that meets the standards...
...this isnt about the raw exercise of power for partisan purposes. This would be using raw power to drain partisanship from Court nominations, because 1 replacement would be irrelevant to court rulings. Here is why it should be done and how it would work: time.com/5338689/suprem…
...there are other ways to do this, but a Dem partisan attackwould just lead to a response by the GOP when theyre back in power. This is about fairness & structuring this country to meet the realities of modern times.
It would be about regaining the intent of the Constitution.
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