There is a reason why State Legislatures shouldn’t be allowed to revert to selecting the State’s Senators....
The main reason state legislators are so weak and corrupt today is that most voters don’t know who they are or what they do.
If state legislators had the power to select Senators, and actually took back their powers, e.g. to write election laws, citizens would pay far more attention to whom they’re electing in their own backyards, rather than being mesmerized by their governors or by the grandstanding buffoons in DC.
Among its worst decisions is one from fifty years ago that today’s social justice warriors just love. Alabama plaintiffs in Reynolds v. Sims (1964) sought 14th Amendment relief from state legislative districts with unequal populations.
Scotus: “We hold that, as a basic constitutional standard, the Equal Protection Clause requires that the seats in both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis. Considerations of history, economic or other group interests, or area alone do not justify deviations from the equal-population principle.” Who knew the 14th Amendment of 1868 commanded state senatorial districts of equal population?
With these words, the philosopher-kings of the Warren court tossed aside three hundred years of good governing practice. Until Reynolds, states often apportioned senatorial districts by counties.