You have a super majority in all branches of government, you don’t need to consider other parties.
Where do you start, and what is your overall stratergy?
Will you get a second term?
You have a super majority in all branches of government, you don’t need to consider other parties.
Where do you start, and what is your overall stratergy?
Will you get a second term?
Oh, even the SCOTUS? Cool, that means I don’t have to do step 1: immediately impeach and remove all members of the Supreme Court who did not dissent with the ruling that the President is immune from prosecution.
So I can move on to the rest of the list:
Instruct my Attorney General to bring a case before the current SCOTUS which would allow them to overturn Citizens United. Encourage them to hear and deliberate on no other cases before that case is decided.
Have respected lawmakers introduce several pieces of critical legislation which I insist upon seeing on my desk before I see any others:
first, a bill which would establish term limits for all members of the federal Judiciary not to exceed 19 years (preferably closer to 13 years), and which would further institute a binding code of conduct for members of the Supreme Court and the federal Judiciary that detail their requirement to maintain impartiality, qualifications for appointment and approval, transparency obligations, and circumstances under which they should be removed from office;
second, a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College (I’m really hoping that my supermajority in all branches of government extends to the state level, too). If such an amendment seems unlikely to be ratified, I will have this lawmaker instead introduce a bill that would require the members of the Electoral College to assign their votes in accordance with the outcome of the national popular vote, independent of the decision of their state. Both the amendment and the bill should include a clause requiring all elections with more than one valid candidate be conducted via ranked choice vote;
third, a bill which would increase the maximum number of constituents per member of the House of Representatives to 250,000 (this would effectively triple the size of the House), establish a minimum of three senators for each state with a fourth apportioned to the 25 largest states, and apportion full voting members of the House and Senate under these rules to Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico;
fourth, a bill which would immediately re-establish the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and establish its budget as significantly higher than it has ever been before. This bill would also remove all news sources (television news, online news, newspapers, etc) from private ownership and establish them instead as independent nonprofit organizations funded by the CPB;
fifth, a bill which would penalize the President of the United States with expulsion from office if they withhold or otherwise interfere with funds, agencies, and directives duly passed by Congress, and which would further re-establish any such agencies which have been eliminated since the beginning of 2025;
sixth, a bill which would penalize the President of the United States with expulsion from office and immediate felony charges of federal election interference if, for more than six months of their term, there are not enough commissioners sitting on the Federal Election Commission (or nominated to the Senate for consideration) for the commission to have a quorum to operate;
seventh, a bill which would establish a statute stripping all unused funds from every political party at the conclusion of every election. Those funds would be treated as tax revenue and appropriated for to fund the Federal Election Commission.
Now that the Legislative Branch has enough to keep them busy, I have some executive work to do.
Expand the FEC and increase their mandate to include nonpartisan reviews of electoral maps. This might seem less important after the abolition of the Electoral College, but actually I think it’s still critical for local representation.
Re-appoint Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission, if she’s interested. Expand and broaden its powers to seek injunctive, equitable, and punitive relief where appropriate in the pursuit of consumer protections.
Instruct my Federal Communications Commission to institute Net Neutrality common carrier laws for broadband providers, and further extend those rules to cover social media platforms as well. Also instruct them to assist a member of the Legislature in drafting strong laws that would enshrine those protections into law, once the six critical bills have been passed.
Instruct my Attorney General to investigate, build a case against, and if necessary prosecute all members and associates of both Trump administrations who participated in any illegal activity; and to take Trump himself into custody immediately, pending trial; as he is clearly a flight risk. I would further instruct them to ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling of presidential immunity, as well as any pardons that he issued to himself, as necessarily invalid. Assuming he is convicted, I would further instruct my Attorney General to argue that pardons issued by Trump were in the pursuit of his criminal activity and are thus also nullified.
Request that the House and Senate codify and harden their response to purveyors of armed insurrection under the 14th Amendment.
I think that’s everything I’d need to do to fix the problems that Trump and the GOP have created or exploited. There are probably other loopholes that need to be closed, and I’d want to take care of those as well. Basically, I want to eliminate a lot of executive power, and I want to codify norms and rules into actual laws wherever possible.
Now that the cleanup is done, I can actually get into some serious business, like…
I’ve thought about this a lot.