Constitutional Amendments and So Forth 1

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I understand that most of the following is not practical.  Yes, we get it, we understand, already!  But these are not normal times and besides, it is fun to list the issues if for no other reason to go back and see where we stood and where we stand.  For those who think that we are only unhappy with Republicans, I am happy to report that yes, that Satan on Two Legs, Obama, was guilty of some of the following, and the people call for change!  Change at once!

So in no particular order:

1. Fix the electoral college.  I see no reason to give the Republicans an apparent 3-5% advantage over the elected vote.  Now how to fix it is more complicated and lets leave that for another time.

2. Fix the judiciary.  The simplest way is to insist that those justices who were not confirmed by a supermajority (2/3rds or 3/4s) need to be reconfirmed or are automatically removed.  Also, all justices need to thoroughly vetted in contrast to the, for example, charade that took place with Kavanaugh.

3. Add more requirements to who can become president.  At the very least, require that any candidate have served in the federal government or the US Military as an officer for at least one term.

4. Term limits on justices.  15 years?  20 years at most?

5. Improve and make more explicit the terms of impeachment.

6. Add some sort of official reality check on statements.  Maybe an OMB or CRS but for basic truth telling.

7. Tighten the rules on record keeping.  Pruitt is the classic example of someone who did not keep records of meetings, did not even keep records of what meetings he kept, etc as a way of avoiding being held accountable.

8. Tighten the rules on foreign interference in our government and our elections.

9. Remove the DOJ restriction on indicting a sitting president.  W.T.F. did that come from?

10. Have some rules for what makes an election invalid and require a do over.  Certainly this election and the one with Bush in 2000 should have been redone. 

11. Tighten the rules about whether a president can fail to fill positions mandated by Congress.  As you probably know, Trump has worked hard to destroy some agencies.  So lets make this clear, positions are to be filled not ignored.  Agencies are not to be moved to Low Fuck, IN as a way of destroying them.

12. Change the statute of limitations so there is time to put Wall Street and political criminals in jail.  Why should there be a limitation at all for these assholes?

13. Change the rules so that a sitting Justice can be investigated, unlike the insane abomination that said Kavanaugh was exempt.

More to come.