Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Caller: Could Dems Take House Through Resignations u0026 Deaths?" video.
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If we didn't have such a weak, cowardly Attorney General, a bunch of the Republican members of Congress would be indicted for their roles in January 6.
Granted, their deep-red gerrymandered districts would be able to elect some other right-wingers to fill the seats as soon as special elections could be held. But only if the insurrectionists are willing to actually vacate their seats by resigning. Being arrested does not, after all, automatically result in being kicked out of Congress. Most likely many of them would refuse to resign. Meaning that it would be up to the House to expel them, and who knows if they'd have the votes to do that. In which case the seats would still be held, but since the insurrectionists would be in jail awaiting trial and proxy voting has been abolished, they'd be unable to participate in Congress. Which would mean Democrats would have a majority of the members actually present on the House floor. Hakeem Jeffries could become Speaker, and Democrats could start passing stuff to actually benefit the American people.
And since there would be some Senators also getting arrested for their roles in January 6, Democrats would at least temporarily be able to get stuff done without needing the approval of Manchin or Sinema. If they had the balls, they could quickly hold votes to abolish the filibuster and then reinstate the Voting Rights Act, grant statehood to Puerto Rico and DC, ban gerrymandering, add seats to the Supreme Court, etc. (Also, there's the reform that nobody seems to talk about but which would do a lot to make our government more democratic: significantly expand the size of the House. It's been locked at 435 members for over a century, during which time the US population has more than tripled. If the House had grown in size in proportion to that increased population, it would make gerrymandering far more difficult since there'd be physically less room for each district. And even more importantly, it would make it nearly impossible for anybody to win the electoral college while losing the popular vote, because the disproportionate power that tiny rural states have in the electoral college would be diluted.)
Unfortunately, this is all a fantasy because Merrick Garland demonstrably does not have the balls to actually do his job and prosecute the insurrection caucus. If he did, all of this could've happened 1-2 years ago, and without the ability to gerrymander (plus DC getting a House seat and PR getting 4), it's unlikely that Republicans would've been able to gain a House majority in the midterms at all.
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