01-27-2021, 10:56 PM
sekker wrote:
DC and PR statehood still tops my list.
I would add a true voting rights amendment - need to end Jim Crow and related voter suppression once and for all. Maybe end infinite $$ in politics while we are at it.
Once we have empowered everyone in the country to have a true vote, we can start dealing with other issues you list, many that do not need to amend the Constitution.
I think the EC can be functionally eliminated without an amendment, for example.
Same with disclosure documents for Presidential candidates.
I'm with you on ending Jim Crow and crafting some language that makes it a Constitutional requirement to disclose financial interactions with elected officials (that's going to be tough to write).
About the Electoral College:
Article II, Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3 of the Constitution state:
"Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States shall be appointed an Elector.
The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States."
Seems like it would require an amendment to delete this part of the Constitution.
The issue of requiring financial disclosure might be done by just passing a law, but it seems to be an open question:
https://abovethelaw.com/2019/12/can-a-st...uirements/