From the New York Times, August 14:
Why the left can’t win without a new Constitution.
After the great rebuke of 2024, many Democrats seem to think their party needs to become more moderate. But there’s another theory potent on the American left that believes Donald Trump’s election shows not just that American democracy is in danger, but that it doesn’t really work at all. What the country needs isn’t just a new policy agenda; it might need the kind of constitutional revolution — from adding new states, to packing the Supreme Court — that some Democrats already flirted with under Joe Biden.
That’s the kind of argument that my guest today, Osita Nwanevu, makes in his new book, “The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.” Nwanevu is a contributing editor at The New Republic and the Democratic Institutions fellow at the Roosevelt Institute....
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As with someone plotting a murder - suicide it is important you plan and execute your actions in the right order.
In the case of the headline entreaty, that means being aware of the sandbox you are playing in; Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution, "Appointments of Justices to the Supreme Court":
The Appointments Clause provides that the President shall appoint, subject to Senate confirmation,
Judges of the supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States.1 Thus Supreme Court Justices are officers of the United States whose appointment must comply with the requirements of the Appointments Clause. Importantly, the Constitution provides that presidential nominees are subject to theadvice and consentof the Senate....MUCH MORE—Constitution Annotated at constitution.congress.gov
Which means we have to pack the Supreme Court before we abolish the Senate.
I suppose we should start packing as soon as Congress returns from their August recess on September 9, 2025.
