The election debacle this year, including attempts to deny registration and voting itself, by partisan Secretaries of State in many states, mostly Republican governed, requires at major reform, taking partisanship out of the election process.
Congress has the authority to do this in the Constitution, and therefore, could federalize all elections for Congress and the Presidency, including national registration and the mechanics of operating the election process, so as to make it fair, and also to insure no discrimination or politics in the voting process.
Of course, states rights advocates will fight against this, because they wish to continue their abuse of power, and deny people the basic right to vote.
But the world watches, and is shocked at how Neanderthalish is our whole process of electing Congress and Presidents, so it is time for reform!
Hello Professor,
I like the topic of your title and substance within your posting as a very good suggestion. The extreme aspects in the Republican Party have demonstrated that left to their own indiscretions will resort to any means to push through their political agenda, candidates, platforms and viewpoints.
As we both have posted lately of the well documented evidence of purging the voting rolls within states of those who would not be voting in assimilation and acquiesce to the extreme policies of the Republican Party, tampered and rigged e-voting machines, plus complemented with the intimidation letters sent to many voters in the attempt to keep them from the voting polls.
As I have often said that if one has to resort to these tactics to win the political seats of government and policy directions, then it is obviously that these are candidates and policies that are not worth supporting.
Basically the Republican Party has forfeited the luxury, and the national trust of monitoring themselves to make sure that voting in those states will be safe, accurate, and fair.
And yet, now there is danger of the Republican majority Supreme Court declaring much of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 unconstitutional, or no longer necessary, UNLESS Kennedy or Roberts joins the four Democratic appointments in upholding the law. This is very worrisome!
The battle is not over by any means……in fact, it has just begun!
I have hope, and a sneaking suspicion, that Roberts might become a true statesman and move to the center from the right, and that Kennedy will also be proper in his judgment, but when one thinks of Thomas and Alito, the legacy of the two Bushes, it is enough to wish to vomit. And then, of course, the last Reagan legacy is cocky, arrogant Scalia, who is in my mind, the epitome of a Newt Gingrich on the Court, always bragging about his intellectual prowess! So the MOST important legacy of the recent election is the effect Obama will have on the judiciary, even if no one leaves the Court, because he will pick a large number of circuit court judges who can affect the future, and possibly, for one or two of them, eventual Supreme Court selection!