The gravedigger of democracy has concerns
The master manipulator who put his thumb on the scales to take advantage of the undemocratic electoral college (which results in a GOP advantage even when they are rejected by a majority of the voters) to install two hyper-partisan wingnut Supreme Court justices says that if the Democrats win they’re going to right his wrongs.
Boo fucking hoo:
The day after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was announced as Kamala Harris’s choice for vice president, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told a crowd of lawmakers in Louisville, Kentucky, that a Harris administration would spell certain doom for the Republican Party.
“Let’s assume our worst nightmare—the Democrats went to the White House, the House, the Senate,” McConnell said during his keynote speech at the National Conference of State Legislators Legislative Summit last week, according to Spectrum News. “The first thing they’ll do is get rid of the [Senate] filibuster. Second, you’ll have two new states: D.C., Puerto Rico. That’s four new Democratic senators in perpetuity.”
Puerto Rico will vote on a nonbinding ballot measure in November to determine the territory’s future political status, with voters being given three options, all of which would change its official status: statehood, independence, or independence with free association. It will be the seventh time that the island’s 3.2 million people vote to define their political relationship with the United States. Harris has not yet taken an official stance on the vote.
McConnell insisted that next on the historically moderate Democrat’s agenda would be to place as many liberal justices on the Supreme Court as possible, noting that doing so would be “unconstitutional”—while apparently ignoring the fact that that’s exactly what Donald Trump did to achieve SCOTUS’s current conservative supermajority.
“If they get those two new states and pack the Supreme Court, they’ll get what they want,” McConnell said.
There’s nothing unconstitutional about any of that. Consider how the right got “North and South” Dakotas and Carolinas to pad their electoral college advantage. And, I’m sorry, there is ample precedent for expanding the Supreme Court, especially in a time when the current court routinely says, “what are these precedents you speak of?” To hell with that.
I’ll be shocked if the Democrats actually do any of this. But I'[d be thrilled if they do.