SCOTUS to review "independent state legisilature" theory regarding federal elections next term

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The Supreme Court is making a great case for why we need a completely new Constitution.

Because yeah, it is the states that decide the Electoral College and the presidency. They just came to an agreement to have people vote and base their decisions based off of that, but there’s nothing to say they have to at least when it comes to presidential elections.

Some of this, like the EPA rules case, could definitely be rectified if Congress acted and just gave more specific legislation to it for climate change. But you know, the filibuster, and the Senate in general being biased towards red/low-populated/rural states, and the gerrymandering in the House, and the influence of corporate interests on campaign funding.

A lot more of this could also change if we passed constitutional amendments, but it’s too difficult, especially in this partisan climate.

This Supreme Court is just getting started. Just wait until Social Security, Medicare, and other pieces of FDR and LBJ’s legacies come up. They are going back to the pre Civil War understanding of the United States as an alliance and trade zone with a common currency (basically the EU).

Eventually I think it will lead to a brand-new constitution. But in the meantime, we need to pay a whole more more attention to making changes at the state level and through state compacts.