2020 candidates embrace constitutional rewrites
Remember when President Donald Trump was the candidate who wanted to blow things up? Or when Medicare for all or the Green New Deal counted as bold policy prescriptions?
The Democrats running for president are debating and endorsing a staggering array of proposals that would rewrite aspects of the Constitution and longstanding rules and traditions of lawmaking.
Now on the 2020 agenda: abolishing the Electoral College; expanding the size of the Supreme Court and changing the ways justices are selected; eliminating the Senate filibuster; and letting 16- and 17-year-olds vote....