JUDGE GINSBURG'S REPLACEMENT: U.S. POLITICAL SYSTEM SKEWED IN FAVOR OF THE RIGHT

 

With the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Senate will be voting on a new Supreme Court judge. Trump will very likely attempt to railroad through a new appointment, thus pushing the court further to the right. Moments like this place in full view the undemocratic nature of the U.S. political system. Most of the highly populated states are more left leaning and have Democratic Party senators than sparsely populated states, which tend to have Republican Party senators. For instance, New York's population is 19.5 million and California's is 39.8, as opposed to Nebraska with 1.9 million. The first two states have two Democratic senators while the latter is represented by two Republicans. That means that California has over twenty times the population than Nebraska but both are going to have equal say in the naming of a new Supreme Court judge. 

Compare that with Venezuela, a country that the U.S. government labels totalitarian. Upon elected president, Hugo Chavez promoted the drafting of a new constitution that replaced the bi-cameral legislature with a National Assembly. If the U.S. had that system it is highly unlikely you would have the Supreme Court dominated by conservative and right-wing judges as it is today.