Moore v Harper Could End Our Democracy

[ancianita]

69. Okay, then.

There's more to consider besides vote numbers. It's time.

And it's the sell to congress at large. Maybe Kinzinger, Cheney and other Repubs on the way out would vote for it. That would help save us from what the current precedent-overturning court might do.

The House and Senate Democrats of the current 117th, to the best of my knowledge, only have one bill on judicial reform introduced back last year. If they've begun their judicial reform investigation in a way that could sell the benefits to anyone but themselves, I haven't read or heard about it. The Brennan Center for Justice has ideas about what should be done.

They still haven't begun the process of building the proposal, perhaps changing it to establish 13 justices instead of the 12 of the original bill. They might have submitted it to relevant committees for further hearings, by now, but the dot gov site doesn't show that. Hearings completed, committees vote it out to the floor of either house; then the bill gets read in full, debated, along with making amendments, and then it's goes for a full vote of both the House and Senate.

How long have other bills taken, on average? I could only guess, but if such a bill were passed into law by Oct 1, when the SCOTUS sits for the next session (which lasts 'til June or July, 2023), how would it change anything in the duration. I've no idea since no SCOTUS has been changed since the 1800's.

If Pelosi and Schumer could fast-track it and the nominating and confirmation process, it would be the fastest reform of any kind in U.S. history.