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Radical, practical and otherwise interesting ideas to reform the United States' broken political system.

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Remaking the Ballot
The problems with our current electoral system, the reforms that could fix them, and how to get there
remakingtheballot.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Idea: Snap elections called if Congress is unable to pass a budget, with funding levels automatically set at continuing levels while elections & negotiations are ongoing.
October 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Idea: Prohibit members of the House under Ethics committee investigation from resigning their position.

#Politics #Governing
FWIW, one of my very first law review articles argued that members of the House should not be understood as having an automatic right to resign their seats. It's here: scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol58/is...
November 14, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Idea: Require the President to declare their initial Cabinet nominations *before* Election Day.

#Politics #Voting
November 13, 2024 at 9:56 PM
#BadIdeaMonday: I've got a new method of calculating reapportionment for y'all 😁😁😁

#ElectoralReform #Politics #Voting
November 12, 2024 at 5:00 AM
#BadIdeaMonday: Eliminate all partisan labels from ballots.

#ElectoralReform #Politics #Voting
November 11, 2024 at 10:18 PM
#ElectoralReform idea: #AbolishTheSenate because the Constitution just stipulates "no state ... shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate" and it's technically equal if every state has zero senators, right?

#Politics #Voting
November 10, 2024 at 10:53 PM
#ElectoralReform idea: Add a third senator from each state, so that each state elects one senator every two years.

#Politics #Voting
November 10, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Idea: #Redistricting of state boundaries around major metro areas nationwide
Woke: metro areas becoming their own states, no longer as subject to the whims of rural domineers.
November 9, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Staggered 18-year #SCOTUS #TermLimits, with justices serving on circuit courts after their term expires.

fixthecourt.com/fix/term-lim...
Term Limits - Fix the Court
6/30/23: Most recent FTC-endorsed Supreme Court Term Limits Act introduced in Congress Why ending life tenure at the Supreme Court is good policy: When the founders were drafting the Constitution, a p...
fixthecourt.com
November 9, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Woke: Puerto Rico statehood
Woke: DC Statehood
Woke: Statehood for all overseas US colonies

Expanding the franchise to all citizens of the US shouldn't be a controversial stance

#Politics #Voting #ElectoralReform
November 9, 2024 at 1:17 PM
#ElectoralReform idea: Each state's electoral votes are weighted by that state's turnout (e.g. a state with 11 electoral votes and 60% turnout would effectively have 6.6 electoral votes)

#Politics #Voting
November 9, 2024 at 1:14 PM