The goal of this Supreme Court seems to be the dismantling of the past century of reading the Constitution. They are pushing hard to put the onus on Congress to pass explicit amendments to protect human rights, and to be more explicit in the power they grant the Executive. And they don't seem to care about religion being defacto intertwined with public education.
The United States was "the first modern democracy". But we're running on shoddy, unpatched OS that none of the maintainers feel like fixing, and the users can't change the maintainers due to the rules.
Ideally:
The Senate would be gone.
Either gerrymandering would be dismantled, or state elections for House would be multi-member elections. The House would scale with population.
Justices of the Supreme Court would have a term limit of say, 18 years.
Constitutional amendments would not require such a supermajority of state legislatures.
The Federal government would have a standard for voting audits and take a more active role in protecting voting rights, since the ability for the Constitution to be amended depends on the integrity of state elections as well as federal elections.
Frankly, I don't see a way out of the slow death spiral this country is in without significant upheaval.
The United States was "the first modern democracy". But we're running on shoddy, unpatched OS that none of the maintainers feel like fixing, and the users can't change the maintainers due to the rules.
Ideally:
The Senate would be gone.
Either gerrymandering would be dismantled, or state elections for House would be multi-member elections. The House would scale with population.
Justices of the Supreme Court would have a term limit of say, 18 years.
Constitutional amendments would not require such a supermajority of state legislatures.
The Federal government would have a standard for voting audits and take a more active role in protecting voting rights, since the ability for the Constitution to be amended depends on the integrity of state elections as well as federal elections.
Frankly, I don't see a way out of the slow death spiral this country is in without significant upheaval.