Rep. Sean Casten

I think beyond that, though, on the Supreme Court, prior to 1925, the Supreme Court didn't get to set their own docket.

Congress gave them the power to set their docket and grant cert in the Judges Act of 1925.

We could take that away.

Right.

And all of a sudden you wouldn't have the situation where Thomas makes a footnote in a dissent and somebody says, OK, I see what you're saying.

If I bring this case, we can go in and bring this down.

We can take that away.

We could we have the power of the purse.

Why do we always give the Supreme Court 100 percent of the appropriation they ask for?

We could go back and say we're going to give you less next year unless you institute the following ethics reforms, right?

Let's make people trust the court.

These are all things that we could do within our power.

No, there are a lot.

True, although I would remind you of that Hamilton's line that super majorities create the problems they're designed to solve.

Just, I mean, and I don't have a way legislator to fix this because of Article 5.

But it's worth noting that for every state and every country that's copied the U.S.

form of democracy, none of them have copied the structure of the Senate.

You know, the overrepresentation.

Yeah, yeah.

It's funny.