US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat, New York) isnāt fazed by Congressā failure to move forward with the impeachment of Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth.
From her perspective, Democrats have almost too many people to investigate once they gain control of Congress in January.
āThere are so many criminals in this administration, itās hard to figure out who should be, you know, the order of operations,ā Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview with CNNās Manu Raju on Tuesday.
āThere are going to be many, many, many investigations,ā she added. āI imagine many subpoenas, and we have to follow wherever the evidence takes us.ā
The EC will quite likely be effectively ended by states before Congress gets to it. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact will make the EC follow the popular vote, not the stupid state-based voting currently being done.
No it wonāt.
States with an opposition majority can simply exit the Compact. SCOTUS can rule the Compact invalid as soon as it becomes a hinge point for a presidential contest. State parties can send up electors that refuse to abide by the compactās accords.
The only real solution is abolition. Any relic of the system that remains is a loaded gun left in the hands of a cynical bureaucracy.
They canāt just simply exit. Theyāll need to pass a new bill to exit, at minimum.
This is potentially true. It seems constitutionally sound from SC precedence, but itās not like the current SC cares about that. Hopefully the court gets repaired before they have the chance to shoot it down.
Youād need a Democrat in the White House to do that. At that point, thereās no longer pressure to reform the EC.
Why is there no pressure to reform the EC then? Are we not holding any more elections after that?
Thereās plenty of pressure. Just not in the direction youād prefer.
This was an underreported part of Project 2025, which lead off with a new wave of unscheduled redistricting in red statesā¦ leading to the Dummymander of 2026.
There was also the attempt, in 2020, to award EC votes by state legislative fiat rather than statewide popular vote.
But the bottom line is that when youāre winning (and Republicans have had a built in EC / Senate advantage since 1968, thanks to their popularity in smaller rural states) thereās no big incentive to change the rules.
And when youāre losing, thereās no opportunity to change them.
Continue winning?
Itās a recurring pattern in politics. People win and then just forget itās even possible to lose, until itās too late