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Aisle 47 – Installment 5 – Unstacking & Improving SCOTUS

This is the fifth installment in the short blog series, Cleanup on Aisle 47, which is meant to present ideas on rebuilding and strengthening U.S. democracy. (This is the half-way point in the series.) Mitch McConnell got his wish – a fully-stacked Supreme Court (SCOTUS) that does the bidding of conservative Republicans and locks everyone else into their small-minded, undemocratic decisions, thus making the country less free. McConnell and the Republicans were quick to scream…

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Aisle 47 – Installment 4 – Creating a Functional Congress

This is the fourth installment in the short blog series, Cleanup on Aisle 47, which is meant to present ideas on rebuilding and strengthening U.S. democracy. The legislative branch of the U.S. government is currently broken. When Donald Trump first served as president and was impeached twice, he should have been removed from office, but Republicans, who were and still are in the majority, were so much in thrall or in fear of Trump that…

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Aisle 47 – Installment 3 – POTUS – Avoiding Future Dictators

This is the third installment in the short blog series, Cleanup on Aisle 47, which is meant to present ideas on rebuilding and strengthening U.S. democracy. POTUS Breaking Every Democratic Norm Donald J. Trump is a piece of work, isn’t he? He has broken every democratic norm and law he can think of, taking a metaphorical wrecking ball to the Constitution and a literal one to the East Wing of the White House. He has…

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