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9:17Now PlayingHow to REFORM the SUPREME COURT
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9:17Now PlayingHow to REFORM the SUPREME COURT
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Hawk addresses the frequent question of why Joe Biden did not expand the Supreme Court, explaining that a president cannot do that unilaterally and would need an act of Congress to authorize it. With Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema blocking filibuster reform in a 50-50 Senate, the votes were never there between 2021 and 2022 when Democrats briefly held both chambers.
Hawk then lays out a specific reform plan for what a Democratic trifecta after 2026 and 2028 should do. The first step is a limited or conditional elimination of the Senate filibuster to allow passage of legislation with a simple majority. The second step is expanding the Supreme Court from nine to thirteen justices, allowing a Democratic president to appoint four new justices and shift the court to a 7 to 3 majority. Hawk argues this is constitutionally sound and the only realistic way to prevent a hostile conservative majority from immediately striking down any new civil rights, voting rights, or economic legislation Congress passes.
The plan also includes granting statehood to Washington DC and Puerto Rico, which would add four new senators and additional House members. Hawk connects all of this to the 2026 midterms, naming specific Senate races that need to go Democratic for any of it to be possible, including James Talarico in Texas, Sherrod Brown in Ohio, Mary Peltola in Alaska, Roy Cooper in North Carolina, and Jon Ossoff holding his seat in Georgia.
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