Former Vice President Kamala Harris faced swift Republican backlash after urging Democrats to consider expanding the Supreme Court and abolishing the Electoral College when they are next in power.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s invite ideas, for example, that are about Supreme Court reform, including the notion of expanding the court,\u201d Harris said on a call with the left-wing nonprofit Emerge.<\/p>\n
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\u201cLet\u2019s invite a discussion about how do we push for statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.; how are we thinking about the Electoral College,\u201d Harris added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to neutralize this red state cheating,\u201d Harris continued. \u201cThere\u2019s a brutality at play on the other side, and a ruthlessness. And we need to play to win.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\nHarris is likely talking about redistricting that is taking place in several red states this year to glean more Republican seats in Congress \u2013 something Democrat-run states did years ago to eliminate most or all GOP-held seats in their congressional districts.<\/p>\n
Also, several red states are redrawing race-based congressional boundaries after the Supreme Court found them unconstitutional last month.<\/p>\n
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And Democrats suffered some recent setbacks in the redistricting battle, including losing four likely seats in Virginia after the state Supreme Court ruled a ballot referendum to make the change violated the state constitution.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat they have done with this decision, by saying that the politics of redistricting is okay, is they are back-dooring racism through politics,\u201d Harris also said on the call, per Fox News. \u201cWhat they are doing is intentionally about trying to suppress the voice of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Republicans immediately pounced on Harris\u2019 ideas, with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) calling her and her Democrat Party \u201cinstitutional arsonists.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a dangerous thing, a dangerous gambit,\u201d the speaker said. \u201cYou don\u2019t just blow up the system when you lose.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the former vice president of the United States and a candidate for president to suggest that you should pack the Supreme Court or destroy these institutions because they lost is I just think outrageous,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., in an interview with Fox, called Harris\u2019 remarks \u201ctotally insane.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why we can\u2019t let her become president,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople \u2026 rejected her before; they\u2019ll reject her again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even some Democrats pushed back on Harris\u2019 ideas. \u201cI think that\u2019s putting the cart before the horse,\u201d Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., told Fox News.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now I\u2019m focusing on lowering costs, health care, ending a runaway war that\u2019s costing Americans tens of billions of dollars. Those are the things that my constituents are talking to me about,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Harris is calling for Democratic retaliation as Republicans appear to be the clear winners in the redistricting battles leading up to the midterms.<\/p>\n
The GOP could gain more than a dozen seats due to several Republican-led states that have drawn new congressional maps, while Democratic gains have so far been limited to California and Utah.<\/p>\n
Earlier in May, Tennessee restructured its only black-majority district, which had been represented for decades by a white Democrat, allowing Republicans to secure a seat that had long been out of their reach.<\/p>\n
Other GOP states, including Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina, are also in the process of eliminating their black-majority districts in compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n
As radical left as Harris\u2019 ideas are, some Democrats have gone even further, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who used a Civil War reference for her party to regain power.<\/p>\n
Speaking amid growing Democratic outrage over recent court defeats in Virginia and the Supreme Court, declaring that \u201cthe North\u201d needed to confront Southern Republican-led states over what she described as attacks on democracy and minority representation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is time for the North to pull up to the South and let them know exactly what they have uncorked with this injustice,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey think they can draw us out of power. They do not know the sleeping giant they just awakened. What they thought was the final blow is actually just the opening silo,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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