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burnt-resistoryesterday at 5:22 AM1 replyview on HN

Yep. And the House is functionally irrelevant and basically a passive onlooker.

SCOTUS legislate from the bench as instructed and POTUS decrees from a throne.


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galangalalgolyesterday at 5:43 AM

A majority isn't impossible, but they would have to remove the filibuster. Ideally I'd want the filibuster removed right this instant, but reinstated for judicial and really any confirmations. Let the party in power make their laws and remove old ones, but keep the judiciary independent.

Edit: When the democrats removed the filibuster for judicial confirmations they started us on this path. Predictably the Republicans responded by including the scotus. That was the end of an independent judiciary. It just took a while for it to be sufficient to kill democracy. And to be clear, no ratings agency in the world still considers the US a democracy. At years end it will be an official downgrade from flawed democracy to electoral autocracy or competitive authoritarian state.

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