I’m relieved to see this stated out loud in a public forum broader than my friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. But I do think it must go farther than legislation. SCOTUS as currently composed has demonstrated scant reluctance to adhere to stare decisis. We need a profound reform starting with a revised Constitution that limits terms for Congress and SCOTUS; eliminates the political class; mandates that Congress will regulate business to ensure the economic resources of the country will not be concentrated in the hands of a few; enshrines the right of all people to make medical decisions about their bodies without government or religious interference including the right to terminate a pregnancy or seek care that aligns their bodies to the gender identity; sets required qualifications for cabinet secretaries and takes the appointment out of the president’s authority; states in no uncertain terms that the fraud and self-dealing the current executive and his family are undertaking are high crimes and misdemeanors requiring impeachment and removal from office all executive branch enablers and expulsion of Congressional enablers; removes SCOTUS appointments from the political process; clarifies that only human beings can contribute to political campaigns and no one can contribute more than $500 including a candidate’s contribution to his/her/their own campaign; that until the playing field is leveled; Congress can enact laws to provide historically oppressed groups a leg up and reverse discrimination is a nonstarter as a legal claim until equality in fact exists for all people; that religious denominations that
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