Kamala Harris Backs 13-Justice Supreme Court And Electoral College Overhaul Ahead Of Possible 2028 Run
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Kamala Harris Backs 13-Justice Supreme Court And Electoral College Overhaul Ahead Of Possible 2028 Run

Kamala Harris is no longer speaking in vague terms about changing the Supreme Court. She has put a number on it. Thirteen justices. And that was only one piece of the sweeping institutional overhaul Harris laid out Friday at the National Urban League Conference in Nashville. She also called for revisiting the Electoral College and renewed her support for statehood for Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Harris delivered the package in her own words: Kamala Harris previews her 2028 agenda: eliminate the Electoral College, expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices, and grant DC and Puerto Rico statehood. This is the platform in her own words. pic.twitter.com/ahmXDf9gfB — Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) August 1, 2026 Calling this a reform agenda understates the scale of what she proposed. It is a proposal to rewrite the rules governing the Supreme Court, presidential elections and representation in Congress—all at once. The Fox News report on Harris’s Nashville appearance said she acknowledged the ideas would be controversial before arguing that the country should hold a “real conversation” about revisiting major institutions. Her remarks came during a Friday afternoon discussion at the National Urban League’s annual conference. On the Supreme Court, she went beyond the general expansion language she has used before and proposed a 13-seat bench, tying that number to what she described as 13 federal circuit courts. The proposal would add four seats to the current nine-member Court. She then placed the Electoral College and statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., into the same political package. Each change would require Congress, the states or both to make decisions with consequences stretching far beyond one presidential term. The appearance came six months before the first major organizing stretch of the 2028 cycle and gave Harris a national stage in front of a key Democratic constituency. Harris has not formally entered the 2028 presidential race. She told the audience that a decision remains ahead and said her immediate focus is the midterm elections. The report also noted that she lost both the Electoral College and the popular vote to President Trump in 2024, making her call to revisit the presidential-election system more than an abstract policy exercise. But presidential candidates rarely wait until launch day to reveal the governing agenda they want activists, donors and party leaders to embrace. Harris just gave Democrats a preview. Paul Szypula posted a longer portion of the exchange, including Harris’s acknowledgment that the pitch would be controversial: Harris Continues Moving Further Left With Controversial 2028 Ideas Former Vice President Kamala Harris outlined several far-reaching proposals on Friday at the National Urban League Conference, continuing her clear shift further left. “I know this is going to be controversial… pic.twitter.com/ZUpQycaomw — Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) August 1, 2026 The Supreme Court has had nine seats since 1869. Congress has the power to change that number, but the power to do something is not the same as a reason to do it. Expanding the Court after losing control of its ideological direction would establish a brutal precedent: whenever one party dislikes the current majority, it can add enough seats to manufacture a new one. The next party in power could answer by adding more. Nine becomes 13. Thirteen becomes 17. The Court would stop looking like an independent branch and start looking like another prize handed to whichever party can assemble a temporary majority in Washington. The Electoral College proposal is just as consequential. President Trump’s 2024 victory over Harris included both the Electoral College and the national popular vote. Her decision to target the system now is especially revealing. The Electoral College is not a federal regulation a president can erase with a signature. It is embedded in the Constitution, and replacing it would require the difficult amendment process the founders designed for major structural changes. That difficulty is a feature. It prevents a temporary political coalition from casually rewriting the rules for choosing every future president. Statehood for Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico involves different legal and political questions, and Puerto Rico’s voters must determine what status they actually want. But placing both beside Court expansion and an Electoral College overhaul makes the political objective impossible to miss. The machinery of government itself is now part of the political target, alongside the ordinary fight to win under the rules that exist. Democrats spent years warning that American institutions were under attack. Now their last presidential nominee is openly discussing a larger Supreme Court, a different presidential-election system and two new states as part of the same national agenda. Voters deserve to hear that clearly, long before 2028. Harris may not have decided whether she is running. She has already told America what she wants to change if she does. The post Kamala Harris Backs 13-Justice Supreme Court And Electoral College Overhaul Ahead Of Possible 2028 Run appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.