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Democrats currently have a single issue offered to them on a silver platter, against which Republicans are defenseless, one that would catalyze majority buy-in on the need to expand not just SCOTUS but other federal courts, and one that is clearly most pressing: Voting. 1/
Nothing is going to happen without voting modernization and liberalization. No climate policy, no health care, no gun control. Everything is downstream of voting. And it's obvious the @GOP has already made voting their own number one issue: that is, voting suppression. 2/
Perhaps there isn't clarity on how obvious this is, how voting should be the Democratic party's spearhead, because leadership is endlessly lost in the "complexity" of all the things voters and the party cares about. Look at the time wasted already on court expansion... 3/
Notice how the question of expanding SCOTUS or lower courts is already bogged down in fear of voter reaction, agitation of the GOP, and myriad other unnamed uncertainties which reliably prevent the Democratic party from taking action--or better, from waging confident war. 4/
Democratic Party Habitually Unable to Choose an Issue Which it's Willing to Die For ----> meet Voting Rights and Voting Modernization. You can run your sword through the @GOP on this one. At best, 20% of the country is willing declare openly its against democracy. /5
The proposition is ridiculously simple: The Democratic Party is going to war to modernize voting, and expand voting rights, and any court that gets in its way will be subject to expansion, from SCOTUS on down. Many things are hard. This isn't. 6/
The justification for expanding SCOTUS is increasingly uncomplicated. If Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh keep inventing reasons to throw out ballots submitted under state rules, it makes the case pretty easy to neuter them through dilution. Bring it on. https://twitter.com/Dan_F_Jacobson/status/1321574156157276161
Voter suppression is now the @GOP central election strategy, everywhere, and at all times. It will be like this henceforth. Democrats have to reorganize the sequence of their priorities now: Voting modernization first, then everything else. https://twitter.com/AaronRHanlon/status/1321460351167352832
Priorities correct here, and it's very encouraging. But voting modernization will require more. We have to reach a condition in which elections are no longer litigated (routinely). (Here is HR 1. 2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_People_Act_of_2019 ) https://twitter.com/SteveESpaulding/status/1321852414656417796
The electorate clearly understands voter suppression is now the central political mission of the @GOP. Results will show that placing such a well advertised hurdle in front of voters has made them angry, resolved to crawl through glass to be heard. https://twitter.com/AmyEGardner/status/1322179010915373058
By definition, true voting modernization would mean that US elections are rarely, if ever, litigated. This balkanization of rules, ad-hoc or capricious decision-making, and crass judicial intervention needs to be entirely obviated. https://twitter.com/Dan_F_Jacobson/status/1322615090860953602
