Kamala Harris comes out swinging…
…Harris has blasted the Supreme Courts decision…
…on a call with nonprofit…
Journalism is dead
Ah, great thing she was never VP or any such place to try and do this when it was an issue years ago…
That would be embarrassing.
…you’re supposed to keep that part quiet until republicans are out of office… 😒
She needs to give it up and sit down.
Sit down. Shut up. A lot of us voted for you out of harm reduction. You’re further negating that every time you emerge from whatever cesspool you fucked off to after the election.
Fuck. Off. Harris.
Once again Democrats saying that are in favor of doing something they could have done when they had power, and when they have power again, they will forget all about it and ostracize you if you bring it up.
Kamala Harris finally choosing to stand up for an issue. Nice.
Dems are great at doing that when they don’t have the ability to actually do it.
Can someone please explain to me the logic behind allowing states to redistribute their districts every few years? The problem isn’t that the GOP redistricts in a way to oppress black voters or that the Dems redistrict to support them, it’s that we allow these shenanigans at all. Why are we allowed to have these battles in the first place? There has to be a better solution.
I mean, populations change. And the number of seats allocated to an area in a representative democracy needs to change with that.
Its just that every state should have a third party, non-partisan commission drawing those districts with ranked choice voting nationwide to actually better represent the will of the people vs letting legislators in their own state design and vote on their own constituents. We should be voting for them, not the other way around.
Who is we? Plenty of people support this.
Context: US political polarization is too severe to be contained. It’s too severe for non-partisan organizations and institutions to truly exist. These aren’t political differences competing in the marketplace of ideas. It’s opposing cultures that are more invested in their side winning than in the system that keeps all of this mostly non-violent (democracy).
In this case: Populations shift, maps have to be periodically redrawn by people. Those people will wield political power whether they want to or not, so controlling who gets that power and what they do with it is a natural incentive.
Many countries do these maps in a mostly non-partisan way, but that is only possible when the majority of people believe the system of democracy to be more important than any one (potentially bad) outcome. That is simply not the case in the US. The power to redraw maps must exist and at the level of political polarization that exists in the US, that power will ultimately be corrupted for partisan ends.
They do it in a way where there are much smaller districts. Then the realities of slightly skewed districts offset on the balance… And you also have multiple parties.
The parties in the US draw them to pre-decide outcomes
I used to think they need to add about 4 seats to the Supreme Court. I no longer think that.
Now I think they should add 20 seats, and they should have term limits, age limits, and rolling election dates. Every president should be able to appoint a few seats, but never enough to change the overall direction of the court.
One bad faith president shouldn’t be able to negatively influence policy for decades after he’s gone.
I’m glad she’s reaching for something that the Dems have avoided for years. MAGA has been gaming SCOTUS for decades, and the Dems allowed it, approving their obviously corrupt choices nearly every time, and it’s about time they started fighting back.
Dems need to stop trying to be MAGA Lite, and do far more fighting back, and embracing the issues that should be defining them - Universal Health Care, Student Loan Forgiveness, Free Day Care, Free College, Federal School curriculum, etc.
Each state gets to randomly select one judge from their available pool for a four year term.
Imagine if RBG retired, DWS and HRC didn’t cheat the primaries in 2016, and Harris didn’t get coronated as candidate in 2024.
The Democrats make their own shitty problems and get in their own way every cycle and wonder why they keep losing to carnival barkers like Trump.
It’s entirely their fault we are in the situation we’re in now.
If Biden has stepped down in year 2 and let Harris be president ney the first black woman president, she would have been reelected easily. Biden should have what was best for this country not his ego
If you look at the whole arc of Bidens career, he’s always been conservative for a dem, and bent over backward to accomodate republicans when he shouldnt have. He’s legendarily bad at dealmaking and often seemed to be pretending to be incompetent so he could give the right sweet deals. He was also terrified of being called soft on crime, so he made a big show of being tough on crime in really dumb ways. He was also obviously a racist, right up until he was tapped to be Obamas vp. He also spent his entire career being bought and traded by AIPAC. He was not a good man, and not a good dem. He was never going to do a good job as president and the only way he won was in running right after Obama so he got the racist reactionary vote, and against Trump.
For sure they’re to blame, but the situation would be substantially less shitty if the right weren’t literally hitler
Yeah. I feel like it’s really important to point out just how fucking stupid Dem leadership is, and it feels like it goes without saying, but the GOP are fucking pedophile Nazis and they suck at everything expect being stupid ass pedophile Nazis that are destroying the U.S.
Fuck the Guardians Of Pedophiles.
As designed
I would rather see them impeach Alito and Thomas for blatant corruption, but neither will ever happen, so
Even if they did, Trump would get 2 more picks for SCJ
What’s the process for impeaching a US supreme court justice?
Same as any other office holder. Impeach in the house, convict in the Senate.
Worth knowing:
Unlike other impeachable offices, SCOTUS judges serve for an unlimited term that is subject to an undefined “during good behavior” rule.
A future administration with sufficient votes to reform SCOTUS can and should take this to impose a meaningful code of conduct on judges that can boot them from the bench without needing the senate to go through a political process.
Basically the same as presidents and other political officers iirc
I agree completely, but the next best thing is making them irrelevant
Throw them in prison.
Making the system even larger is stupid. Make accountability instead.
I think both are good. More people means less individual influence.
Didn’t work for the Senate. Billionaires have enough money for a thousand judges. More judges just means less focus on the corrupt ones, and the ones who aren’t corrupt can be ignored and drowned out by the corrupt ones. It doesn’t matter if there’s 5 judges or 500 judges. It’s still just 51% that need to be pieces of shit in order to ruin it all.
Speaking to Emerge, Harris raised the idea of Supreme Court reform “including the notion of expanding the court.”
That’s coming out swinging? Maybe if she releases a signed public statement saying she supports court expansion and if she thinks an un-filibuster-able bill would be an appropriate way to do so regardless of what the Senate Parliamentarian says I’d believe it, but this seems so vague it’s meaningless.
You don’t decide, the black votes in the south will decide.
Not after the recent SCOTUS ruling, they won’t!
spoiler
(Yes, I’m aware gerrymandering doesn’t apply to the presidential election. It’s a joke.)
Yes, they literally will. It’s a private primary. The DNC literally dosent have to follow that SCOTUS ruling.
Well, if we’re talking literal, there’s also the issue that your comment was factually-incorrect and also kinda racist, so maybe you don’t wanna go there.
I thought for sure you’d be a banner-waving Harrisitarian after that article.
(/s, obvs.)
I get and agree with the pessimism. but if she advocates for this as part of her campaign, along with many other necessary counters to the damage that has been done to our democracy, I support that! I’ll prefer someone else for as long as i can, but if she ends up somehow being the nominee I won’t be mad that this is part of her platform.
thing is, saying and doing are different things. we desperately need someone who is MORE aggressive at fixing everything that’s been broken than Trump has been at destroying.
You can burn a building down in a day. Building a new one takes somewhat longer.
Which would make you think there would be more checks involved in burning down those metaphorical buildings, but welcome to America.
“Comes out swinging”
Aka not doing a single thing about it that matters.
