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justaskingthequ··on Can Democrats effectively abolish Electoral College after midterm wins?
Civil war is a popular threat! What drives your certainty? What do you think is the marginal number of additional justices to trigger war?
justaskingthequ··on Can Democrats effectively abolish Electoral College after midterm wins?
Maybe a more interesting question is do they have the strength and/or guts to jettison the supermajority rule, impeach the top two executive branch officials in one go, and appoint the Speaker of the House to the top slot? There is no constitutional or legal reason why they couldn't do both at once in one resolution and no really constraining definitions of the necessary "charges". It's all convention and tradition, which we've seen at this point is basically fictional rules for the meek and incoherent.