1: https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/06/court-allows-trump-to-fir...
The executive branch, as the one tasked with "faithful execution of the laws", is really the only branch that actually does anything substantial. I mean, yes the Congress passes laws and the SC interprets them, but the only branch that can actually carry out those laws is the executive branch. These rulings by the SC basically say that the President can do whatever he wants because (a) he can't be prosecuted for any official actions, and (b) all regulatory decisions are now solely within his control.
Starting with Citizens United, this crop of SC justices will go down in infamy as some of the worst since Dred Scott. Let's hope we don't need another actual civil war to rectify their buffoonery.
Each eligible voter should get one vote of equal weight to all others. The EC breaks that.
Electeds. Where they campaign signifies who they think they have to convince and compromise with to earn their seat.
JumpCrisscross•31m ago
1. Strike pardon power;
2. First sentence of Article II changed to: “The President shall execute the laws of the United States of America”;
3. Abolish the electoral college;
4. Congress may regulate money in politics; and
5. Congress may create independent agencies with charters of up to 25 years. (President still names and Senate still confirms appointments. But they can be insulated from “the executive Power.”)
Everything else, including judicial reform, expanding the House and implementing a wealth tax (1% over $100mm, 2% over $1bn, 3% over $10bn, 4% over $100bn and 5% over $1tn), can be done through statute.
superxpro12•26m ago
JumpCrisscross•22m ago
Can be done through statute. And, I’d argue, is better done there. Independent redistributing commissions? Proportional representation? Expanding the House? Combination thereof? I don’t know if we know the answer; hard coding a solution ex ante seems unnecessarily risky.
ceejayoz•20m ago
And undone through statute, or SCOTUS intervention.
JumpCrisscross•11m ago
This is generally hard. And should be possible for something as intricate as election mechanics.
> or SCOTUS intervention
Oh, I have lots of ideas for Court reform. Worst case, add justices. (Or, my favorite, every Supreme Court case gets a random slate of appellate judges.)
superxpro12•1m ago
Any one judge per district. Our House was supposed to scale with the population. IT only makes sense that the courts should too.
bufbupa•20m ago
- term limits for congress
- voter day national holiday
- if budget isn't balanced all members of congress become ineligible for election
- repeal citizens united (maybe covered by op)
- and change all fines/tickets to paid in human hours of community service rather than money
JumpCrisscross•19m ago
I’d strongly argue against the community-service bit, however. That’s just job loss for those who earn income from labor and an inconvenience for those who earn it from capital.
jfengel•24m ago
JumpCrisscross•16m ago
Detrytus•22m ago
This one is completely useless. Congress may regulate, but why would they? They directly benefit from more money in politics.
If anything this should be more direct, and read: "Political donations may only come from individual US citizens, and cannot exceed the amount of monthly minimum wage per person, per year".
Or maybe just add a field in the tax return form where anyone can name a party to receive some fixed amount donation, subtracted from person's taxes.
JumpCrisscross•20m ago
One, they have. Repeatedly.
Two, the reasons historically varied, but it tended to range from it being good for them when winning elections to most electeds being okay fundraisers and not wanting to compete with the great fundraisers.
apparent•18m ago
Editing to add: It would also be a bad idea to abolish the EC because then candidates would only ever campaign in cities. They would completely ignore rural areas, which are financially and culturally different. This would not end well.
Separately, it would also mean we wouldn't know who the president is until all states are done counting, and it would complicate the recount process. Both are simpler under the EC, assuming the slow states are not close calls or big enough to swing the EC count (which they usually are not).
JumpCrisscross•13m ago
It’s honestly the hardest one on there.
> a wealth tax would require an amendment
Genuine question, why?
> It would also be a bad idea to abolish the EC because then candidates would only ever campaign in cities
This doesn’t mathematically work. Most Americans live in suburbia. (We define “urban” very, very broadly for statistical purposes.)
And this effect is more than compensated for by the existence of the Senate and even House.
> it would complicate the recount process
No messier than now. And you’d only be delayed in close elections, in which case carefully recounting everywhere is fine.
ceejayoz•12m ago
This already happens, though. Candidates largely ignore entire states they know they can't win, as well as ones they think they will win.
(Ask Hillary if she regrets not campaigning more in Wisconsin, for example.)
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KaiserPro•11m ago
The supreme court is one vote away from not upholding the constitution.
JumpCrisscross•10m ago
We have two corrupt justices. Until a President has the balls to enforce the law, this won’t be a problem solved by changing text on paper.
Noumenon72•4m ago
ncallaway•3m ago
> Strike pardon power;
I'd go slightly narrower. I think pardons and clemency are a good thing to have in the system. I think we can put reasonable guardrails around it
- Require pardons to be published to a public register to be effective - Allow a 2/3 vote of both chambers of congress to veto a pardon within 90 days - Disallow pardons in the final year of the term - Explicitly affirm that Congress can make bribery and other forms of direct/indirect quid-pro-quos for a pardon illegal
> Congress may create independent agencies with charters of up to 25 years.
I think we should also create room for Congress to create rule-making agencies that exist within the Congressional branch.