Supersize the House
By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated April 11, 2021, 1 hour ago
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A bigger House with smaller districts wouldn t be a panacea for everything that ails American politics. But it could help â including by fixing the problem of the Electoral College.Globe Staff/Adobe/eurobanks - stock.adobe.com
Alcee Hastings, the charismatic dean of Floridaâs congressional delegation, died last Tuesday at the age of 84. During his 28 years in the House of Representatives, Hastings was a reliably left-wing Democrat, and there probably werenât many issues on which I would have shared his point of view. But I was interested to discover that one of his last legislative acts was to draft a bill aimed at expanding the size of the House â a gutsy stand in a body whose members tend to jealously protect their power and perks.
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Expulsion from the Senate or House is explicitly permitted under the Constitution, though it requires a two-thirds vote, which is a high bar and would require bipartisan cooperation.
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Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ark., wears a Fire Pelosi hat as he speaks Wednesday, Jan. 6 in Washington, at a rally in support of President Donald Trump called the Save America Rally. [ JACQUELYN MARTIN | AP ]
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With mounting footage showing violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, lawmakers have increased their calls for punishing members of Congress who they say encouraged the group of supporters of President Donald Trump that eventually breached the Capitol.
And whether congressional Republicans care. Wed Jan 6, 2021 January 6 is the day we learn whether our Constitution will hold and whether congressional Republicans care. The 2020 presidential election was, in several targeted battleground states, an unconstitutional electoral exercise. Even putting aside evidence of significant fraud, virtually none of which received a hearing by our courts, events leading up to and including the November national election constituted a radical and grave departure from the federal electoral system adopted by the framers of the Constitution and the state ratification conventions. Now, let s be clear: None of this matters to the Democrat Party, since it and its surrogates perpetrated these unconstitutional acts, as I shall soon explain. Nor does it matter to the media, which is utterly illiterate on the subject and unequivocally supports the supposed outcome in any event. But it should be of great moment and concern to the people of t
Mark Levin has written a hell of a piece describing how the integrity of our election process is what’s really at stake on January 6th when Congress votes to selects the president and vice president, and why Republicans must stand firm and defend the constitution by challenging the electoral votes from certain states.
I know Levin’s editorial is a bit long, but it is well worth reading to the end. And if you can, read it twice:
January 6 is the day we learn whether our Constitution will hold and whether congressional Republicans care.
The 2020 presidential election was, in several targeted battleground states, an unconstitutional electoral exercise. Even putting aside evidence of significant fraud, virtually none of which received a hearing by our courts, events leading up to and including the November national election constituted a radical and grave departure from the federal electoral system adopted by the framers of the Constitution and the state ratification conventions.