re: US Supreme Court rejects Biden administration’s emergency request

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Explain please. Suggestions?

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Suggestions could come in several tiers. Ideally, I'd want to employ a combination of the Westminster Parliamentary system and the federal mixed-representation system that the German's used until this most recent election.

For instance:

A House of Representatives that is elected via a multi-vote, mixed representation system. For the House, everyone casts two votes---one vote for an individual candidate running to represent their specific district (like we do now), and then one statewide "party list vote".

The district votes remain the same. 435 members will be elected by the consituents of their specific districts. However, the party list votes are used to add seats to the House to ensure that each state's delegation proportionally represents the voting proportions in the state "party list" vote. Ex: Lets say California has an even 50 districts (I know it has more). Then lets say that 40 of the 50 districts elect Democrats, but the statewide "party list" vote is only 60-40 democrat. This would mean that Republican "party list" representatives are added to CA's delegation so that 40% of CA's representatives are Republicans. It doesn't remove any of the Democrat's members, it only adds GOP ones. Yes, that means that the House will never have a fixed number of members, but it does ensure that the states' delegations are not massively one-sided, leaving the minority party with zero representation there. Think about Massachusetts, where all of its seats are held by Democrats, but Republican compromise 35-45% of the statewide House votes. This would also apply to red states.

This is intended to provide actually representative government, and remove the perils of "first past the post" single-member districts.

I would also do away with the two-year term for House members. I would borrow from the parliamentary systems for this. House elections must be scheduled no more than 6 years from the prior election---but an election can be triggered via a motion of no confidence (which is basically what a motion to vacate is, in practice) This removes the lurching two year cycle that, when combined with the POTUS cycle, results in a single "governable" year out of every four years in our current system. That is untenable.


For the Senate, I would repeal the 17th Amendment. The Senate should be appointed by the State legislatures. If people cannot get off their arse enough to care about State legislative elections, then we don't deserve our republic and should just move to a unicameral Congress. Because as it stands now, the Senate is nothing more than a smaller House of Representatives with larger districts.

ETA: I would also ideally include a limit on the amount of time for political campaigning--say six weeks or so, but that has First Amendment and other Constitutional concerns that are not easily tackled in the US like in other places.