Posted on 10/19/2020 7:45:33 AM PDT by Stravinsky
Democrats are threatening to pack the Supreme Court if Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed, but they might not have the Senate votes if the chamber is closely divided. No problem: The number of seats in the Senate, as on the High Court bench, can be adjusted to fit Democrats’ evolving ideological preferences.
In June the House for the first time passed a bill that would make the District of Columbia a state, and Barack Obama in July called Puerto Rican statehood a progressive priority. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said recently that he’d “love to make them states.” This can be done with an act of Congress, so a 104-seat Senate would be on the table with a Democratic sweep.
Many Americans think they are voting for a temporary Democratic government after four years of Donald Trump. They may be surprised to find they actually voted for Senate-packing and a permanent shift in partisan power.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
It will be every election from now on.
I’d be all for packing the house actually.
It’d be helpful to have more reps given our population density.
The US needs to make PR and VI an independent country. They add no value to the US.
This game can be easily played forever until quickly, the USA doesn’t exist.
NY can be split into red and blue states
California can be split into 4 states, 1 blue and 3 red.
And Texas can be divided into 10 red states.
See how it works?
New England should not have 12 Senators.
What about constitutional challenges to trying to make the District of Columbia into a state? The Constitution has wording providing for a District being the seat of government, in territory separate from any state.
Also, the 23rd amendment gives electoral votes to the District of Columbia. If DC were a state, would they then have duplicate electoral votes, unless the 23rd amendment were repealed?
“NY can be split into red and blue states
California can be split into 4 states, 1 blue and 3 red.
And Texas can be divided into 10 red states.”
I LIKE it!
It’d be helpful to have more reps given our population density.
Expect this primarily helps the densely populated Blue areas of the country.
I would be all for separating Puerto Rico. Call their bluff.
This story is just election season ephemeral crap on a slow news day. Well, it’s slow if you are the MSM and don’t want to discuss the Biden emails. ;)
*Except
What about constitutional challenges to trying to make the District of Columbia into a state? The Constitution has wording providing for a District being the seat of government, in territory separate from any state.
The only packing i thought dems were into was fudge packing
I was going to FB the article until I read the last paragraph.
“Mr. Trump has undermined many 20th-century American political norms. If Democrats get power, they need to decide if they want to restore normalcy or act on their own version of 19th-century scorched-earth politics. We wish we could say the latter outcome isn’t more likely.”
These unidentified kind of slurs (what norms?, which norms??) against Trump should not be tolerated by the editors of the Opinion page at WSJ. When slurs do not identify what exactly they are referring to they cannot be judged as either right or wrong, but the reader is left to take them in the negative anyway. They are the worst form of criticism, just like all the Dim lies that try to say Trump is and has been a “threat to democracy”.
Don’t leave out Pennsylvania.
I would LOVE to see Philly cut out from the rest of the state!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good luck getting 3/4s of the States to sign off on it.
Hell, why stop at PR and DC? There’s Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Marianas, Antarctica, Mars....
I have issues with the same sentence, but I think the WSJ Editorial Board is trying to reach the NeverTrump types that stupidly believe that Trump is not staying within the lines. The reality is that a vote for Biden is not a vote for politics as usual. It’s a vote for Marxist domination. Surely Trump is the lesser of two evils in this reality, even if you’re an establishment-loving fool.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.