The first nine items of the platform have nothing to do with healthcare, taxes, immigration, or housing. They’re about whether the machinery of American democracy can still be relied on to count votes, prosecute corruption, and keep a Supreme Court that answers to law instead of donors. Recent years have proven these things cannot survive as mere norms. They have to be law.
The nine guardrails
- DOJ and judicial independence
- A comprehensive anti-corruption framework
- Congressional and federal-judiciary term limits
- Campaign-finance transparency and spending limits
- Supreme Court nomination and confirmation reform
- Mandatory judicial ethics and recusal standards
- A ban on mid-census partisan gerrymandering
- Federal election security standards
- Federal voting-access standards
Why these come before the policy
A platform of substantive policy commitments is a fantasy if the institutions that turn votes into law have been hollowed out. Part One is the foundation. Part Two is the house. You don’t build the house first.
The institutional guardrails recent years have proven cannot survive as mere norms.
That’s the whole logic of putting Items 1–9 ahead of Items 10–26. Read the full platform for the specific legislative language proposed for each.
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