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boston bean

(36,218 posts) Mon Oct 26, 2020, 07:45 AM Oct 2020

38 DAYS

It has taken them 38 days to bring the Amy Coney Barrett nomination to a vote since Ginsburg death. Nomination occurring only 46 days before the next presidential election.

Make DC a state and unpack the Republican packed courts by adding two more justices.

They stole two. We even it up by adding two;effectively taking back what they stole.

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38 DAYS (Original Post) boston bean Oct 2020 OP

Also immediately get rid of the Senate filibuster & gain 4 more Senate seats onetexan Oct 2020 #1

I like the idea of 6. dem4decades Oct 2020 #2

Excellent ideas, and being worked on. DC itself can't be a state without an amendment, but it... TreasonousBastard Oct 2020 #3

onetexan

(13,020 posts)

1. Also immediately get rid of the Senate filibuster & gain 4 more Senate seats

Reply to boston bean (Original post)

Mon Oct 26, 2020, 07:49 AM

Oct 2020

by granting DC & PR statehood. Make it darn hard for Repugs to regain Senate majority for years to come.

dem4decades

(11,269 posts)

2. I like the idea of 6.

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Mon Oct 26, 2020, 07:59 AM

Oct 2020

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

3. Excellent ideas, and being worked on. DC itself can't be a state without an amendment, but it...

Reply to boston bean (Original post)

Mon Oct 26, 2020, 08:11 AM

Oct 2020

can be "reduced" to the 10 square miles required and the rest of it be a state.

PR has had a number of nonbinding resolutions, and most of them were anti-state. Statehood does not benefit quite a few Puerto Ricans because of tax and regulatory benefits they now have, and having representatives in Congress gets a big shrug from a lot of them. This may have changed after the paper towels, but I think the decision is still theirs, not ours.

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