CARVILLE: Demokraten müssen Staaten hinzufügen, den Obersten Gerichtshof erweitern, um die Demokratie zu retten „
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5442239-carville-democrats-states-supreme-court/
CARVILLE: Demokraten müssen Staaten hinzufügen, den Obersten Gerichtshof erweitern, um die Demokratie zu retten „
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5442239-carville-democrats-states-supreme-court/
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*Look, the guys a nut but he’s not wrong, we are long past desperate times., and it’s not like the Republicans wouldn’t try anything far less crazy in their pursuit of destroying democracy*
„Veteran Democratic strategist [James Carville ](https://thehill.com/people/james-carville/)on Thursday suggested Democrats should add two states to the country and expand the Supreme Court in order to “save democracy.”
“They are just going to have to unilaterally add Puerto Rico and District of Columbia as states, … They’re just going to have to do it. And they may have to expand the [Supreme Court] to 13 members,” Carville said during a Thursday podcast episode. “
„Carville says conditions are drastic, citing the GOP push to add five additional House seats in Texas ahead of the 2026 midterms, and require a more forward approach if Democrats capture the White House and both chambers of Congress.“
“Any of those things in isolation I would be skeptical about. I would be cautious about,” Carville said of his ideas.
“I would say, ‘Well, I don’t know if that’s the greatest idea in the world, you’re opening Pandora’s box.’ If you want to save democracy, I think you got to do all of those things because we just are moving further and further away from being anything close to democracy,” he added. “
„The argument for D.C. statehood remains a pressing conversation in Washington.“
„[Eleanor Holmes Norton ](https://thehill.com/people/eleanor-holmes-norton/)(D) serves as a delegate for the District but can only vote in committees and cannot participate in floor votes. The same guidelines apply to Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Pablo Jose Hernandez (D).“
„[President Trump’s ](https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump/)recent qualms with D.C. Mayor [Muriel Bowser ](https://thehill.com/people/muriel-bowser/)(D) and crime rates have frustrated local leaders who are seeking to ensure the city remains under its own authority instead of federal enforcement. “
„Under the Home Rule Act, the president can take the helm of local functions, including D.C. police, if “special conditions of an emergency nature exist.” And after an attack on a former government employee, Trump said [he is evaluating](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5439895-trump-considering-dc-police-takeover/) such a course of action. „
The term to use is rebalance the court.
Whoops, too late.
When James Carville is saying it…
Remember 3 months ago when Carville said Trump’s coalition had already fallen apart and Republicans would jump ship? Pepperidge farm remembers.
Broken clock is right twice a day, this time, though.
He conveniently leaves out „and get money out of politics“ because he is a political consultant.
I still don’t understand why it makes the news every time Carville says some shit
Welcome, North California, South California, Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Mariana Islands. 6 more states with 2 senators each.
Stop talking about it for 40 years and do something about it bud.
He no doubt opposed this when his party was actually in power
Absolutely… this should’ve been done years ago.
Wow so the position the left was advocating for in 2020 . . . Seems neoliberals are always a day late and a dollar short.
this guy 40 years of yack yack yacking. education backwards and outdated, retire.
What a clown. No, the country is doomed if the only way forward is to pad the senate with additional states.
Whichever Democrat gets in next has to have the same aggressiveness as Trump if there is any hope of setting this country back on the right track, and securing democracy. New states, expanded SCOTUS, new Voting Rights act, take down Citizen’s United, fix the tax code, Medicare for All option.
Trump has shown what the method is: do it, and make them try and stop you.
THAT’S what I want to see from any candidate. No more preemptive surrender. No more trying not to offend moderates. They refer to the most middle of the road, moderate Dem as a radical.
I want someone to show them what a radical left can really do!
Institute the Wyoming rule! That’s so much easier than adding new states
Li’l late for that. Thanks Manchin, Sinema, Fetterman, and everyone else who furrowed their brow at doing anything.
They had their chance and decided to do nothing…
Carville has been wrong about everything for about a year. He is not someone to take seriously anymore.
It’s almost like people telling Biden to expand the Court to 13 were on to something, if the establishment Dems weren’t so insistent on playing by rules that no longer exist
This is the same asshole who advocated for the DNC to chop off Hogg…and shits all over any progressive candidates (Zohran is an example). Can we be done listening to the old guard and finally look to then new, young leaders who are the actual future? He had his time, he needs to go fucking retire and be done..
Too little too late James. You were the one attacking the Left for suggesting these things.
As a millennial, I have no idea who this guy is. Every time, cable news pivot to him for sound bite, is like asking a grandpa who should be in assisted living for opinion on MTV.
We can turn around the Trump Administration’s complete lawlessness and use it as a tool to get the reform we need to convert America into a real modern Democracy. We need to forcibly remove most of the Supreme Court and give Puerto Rico and DC statehood. The President can do these things unilaterally because SCOTUS said he or she can do anything as long as it’s in official capacity as the President.
We also need to destroy state-level gerrymandering, the electoral college, and eventually even the two party system through mandatory ranked-choice voting for all states.
We need rank choice voting and to abolish the electoral college
And… How would they accomplish any of this?
too fucking late now. dipshits
Will never happen. Need 60 Senators and with the polarization and ticket splitting non existent, the best Dems will ever do for the foreseeable future is 50.
A little late for that, isn’t it, motherfucker?
City-states.
No shit. We’ve been saying that and you have been fighting it.
James Carville is a fucking hack who hasn’t won an election in over 3 decades.
Reddit leans far-left and hates Carville because he’s a moderate. The dude isn’t perfect or correct all the time (even he’d admit as much); but he’s a lot smarter than lefty Dems (on Reddit) want to admit.
James Carville, being an institutionalist coward who shunned progressives and championed neoliberalism, is a big reason why we’re in this mess. Fuck you, James.
Carville: “Just let him be, he’ll implode”
Carville: “Why are the democrats not fighting back?”
Democracy is dead bud. Been dead.
Bro, read the room.
Remember when the Republicans were s******* a brick that the Democrats would actually do these? And here we are where they are actively gerrymandering because they can hold on to power that way. Dems should not have pissed out.
Carville is a tool, but he is right on the courts
When primaries come around we need to ask who is willing to take the gloves off. I want candidates that will work to pack the courts, expand the House, expand the Supreme Court, tax the rich, ensure affordable housing, and enact Medicare for all. No more moderate Democrats, they are basically Republicans anyway at this point.
Dems grow a fucking spine already and quit playin nice
If only they had done it when it was possible, like we all asked
This is true. Add Puerto Rico and DC. Expand court. Democracy is back in business. Be nice to outlaw gerrymandering too btw.
I hate Carville, but this is a decent plan, along with establishing a non-partisan redistricting organization, abolishing the Electoral College, barring convicted felons from holding office, requiring elected officials to pass the citizenship test, age and term limits, deleting the Senate, adding more seats to the House… and so much more that the eatablishment Dems won’t have the guts to do assuming we ever have another fair election in the first place.
Democrats need to do so much reform
Courts need be unelected none political
More states need be added
Voting reform long list of things here
Donation reform
Lobbying reform
Media reform