[Carry_Okie]

We not only need to return the Senate to the States, we need to have state senators appointed by counties. I can walk into my county supervisor and get time. He is only one step away from a direct line to the US Senate. That's BETTER representation than I get as one of 34 million Californians.

It was the Earl Warren SCOTUS that wrecked that representative communications track with Reynolds v. Sims and Baker v. Carr, two rulings for which they neither had the Constitutional authority, nor were consistent with its construction for State representation. By forcing the States to have direct elections of their State Senators, they were violating the exact principle under which the US Senate was ordained. The result was exactly the same as the 17th Amendment, placing rural areas at the mercy of the ignorant whims of urban voters and the media that herd them.

I can't see why guys like Mark Levin haven't made this simple and effective point.

[Jacquerie]

You are so right. “One man, one vote,” . . . BS. I read the link you provided in a post some time ago. Scotus reached in and illegally rewrote the basic structure of many State governments.

There is no way this would have happened if States had agency in the Senate.

I'll bet Mark eventually gets around to it.

[SierraWasp]

As you know, I hope you and others, including Mark, will shout it from the highest hills till the thumb is removed from the scale that being pushed down upon rural America.

Cows may not vote, but their owners are sure sick of not having their vote mean squat in state legislatures in the USSA!!!

Earl Warren most certainly should have been impeached and re-assigned to cleaning out gutters in rural dairy barns for the rest of his unnatural life!!!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I thought that state Senators were elected prior to those decisions, only the district boundaries were fixed (counties), so that these jurisdictions were not subjected to redistricting and gerrymandering. No matter how the political winds blew, the Senator from Fairfax County, VA, for example, would always represent the people of Fairfax County, VA, no matter how populous the county was.

Reynolds vs. Sims screwed that political stability over.