Analysis: The Democrats’ premature fantasies about packing the Supreme Court and nixing the filibuster
Democratic presidential hopeful Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington state, on Sunday in Austin. By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow March 11 at 1:09 PM As 2020 Democrats charge forward with an increasingly ambitious policy agenda, a couple of bold ideas for implementing it are working their way into the conversation, too: packing the Supreme Court and eliminating the filibuster.
These ideas are born of a clear and understandable frustration with the glacial pace of legislation when Republicans wielded the filibuster during the Obama years. And as a primary strategy, they make sense. “We’re going to make sure we can actually get things passed and upheld by the Supreme Court,” is an attractive message.
It’s possible Democrats could pull it off in 2020. But the maps are simply more favorable to Republicans and should be for years to come, for a variety of reasons including population sorting and gerrymandering in the House. Fully 60 senators come from states that Donald Trump won in 2016, and the median House district went for Trump by more than three points — all in an election in which he lost the popular vote by more than two points.
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