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Here's How Dems Should Fix Our 'Broken Democracy'
5 attributed claims Published August 2026
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Supreme Court justices can be confirmed without a filibuster.
Since 2017, Senate precedent allows cloture on Supreme Court nominations by simple majority rather than the 60 votes formerly needed to overcome a filibuster. The Senate’s official history describes this change as lowering the cloture threshold for Supreme Court nominees to a simple majority.
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Under the described proportional-representation system, 10% of the vote in a 10-seat state delegation would produce one seat.
This is the basic proportional-representation calculation: 10% of the vote in a 10-seat constituency corresponds to roughly one of the ten seats. The exact result can vary by electoral formula and thresholds, but under the proportional system described, the arithmetic is correct.
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The proposed proportional-representation approach is not the current system for electing the U.S. House.
Federal law generally requires states with more than one Representative to use separate congressional districts, with no district electing more than one Representative. That is not a proportional, multi-member-district system.
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The Supreme Court substantially weakened the Voting Rights Act by invalidating the coverage formula used for federal preclearance.
Shelby County v. Holder held the Section 4(b) coverage formula unconstitutional, preventing the ordinary Section 5 preclearance regime from operating for previously covered jurisdictions. The Department of Justice expressly notes that the Court did not rule Section 5 itself unconstitutional and did not invalidate the entire Act.
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If one party wins 51% of the vote in every single-member district, it can win all the seats while receiving only a bare majority of the votes in each district.
In a winner-take-all single-member district, the candidate or party with the most votes wins the seat. Therefore, a party receiving 51% in every district would win every seat, despite having only a narrow majority of votes in each district.
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