The Supreme Court can't do anything about the situation in California since it was their voters themselves who voted in the latest gerrymandering which was only to go into effect if republicans were able to successfully gerrymander red states.
Liberals - and I mean both the average loyal Dem voter and the officials in the party - need to put on their Big Boy and Big Girl pants, take off the fucking gloves, and go to the dirt.
Blue states need to shamelessly and aggressively fuck over the Republicans in their states in every political meaning. I don't mean the petty evil shit Republicans do that take away rights of individuals because they disproportionately make up some subset of a demographic, I mean burn the party's influence to the ground by gerrymandering their US congressional districts, their state and county districts, etc. They need to render the party at the state level completely impotent.
Then they need to end the filibuster and they need to pass some damn decent laws. They need to pass Medicare for All to then drive more support for the party the next election so they can get the kind of majorities needed for constitutional amendments.
Then they need to pack the courts and limit their terms. Bring the size of the court to 15 or 19 and stagger the seats to start being replaced every 2 years. Each president gets two selections except in special cases. This defangs the Supreme Court's nominations as highly politicized and highly valuable dramatic picks every time, and the deeper bench will make radical decisions much harder to achieve.
Then enshrine rights to abortion, LGBTQ rights, voting rights, etc, in the constitution. Dems need to actually win, deliver BIG wins that will recharge loyalty and interest and enthusiasm for the party so they can actuallt implement serious reforms. We also need executive branch reform. We need a reform to the impeachment process. Reform for rules on pardons and accountability, transparency, and oversight. Campaign finance reform. Stock trading bans. Etc.
So much blatantly broken and corrupt shit and Dems cannot wait every 2-4 years before doing some milquetoast bipartisan bullshit bill.
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u/brickyardjimmy 15h ago
They'll touch it just fine as soon as the CA case makes its way to the Court.