Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything

I’ve become kind of a broken record about this. But repetition sometimes serves a crucial purpose. The reform of the Supreme Court is now the sine qua non condition of any reformist program in the United States, of any program aimed at re-establishing/re-ensuring civic democracy in the United States. Equally important is filibuster reform, abolishing the filibuster. In fact, the two are closely related to each other in such a way that they are almost indistinguishable.

But many people know that the filibuster must end. Reforming the Supreme Court, which involves one of several ways to break the power of the six corrupt Republican appointees, is a much more difficult task. It’s not a more difficult elevator vote terms. This can be done by passing a regular law (once you end the filibuster) and having a president sign it. But for many in the political class, for many elected officials, this remains unthinkable. On the positive side, Democratic voters and opinion leaders have time to prepare the ground. The earliest possible is January 2029. (You need Congress and the White House.) But there is an awful lot of work to do. Because I have a feeling that the Democratic officials, the party elites, are not even close to being there. And there really is no future without it.