Americans require a 60% supermajority to reduce drug prices.
Americans require a 60% supermajority to legalize abortion.
You may need to study up on your civics. I don’t think there is anything in the US that requires a 60% majority. In the Senate you do run into issues below 60% due to filibuster, but an actual vote to pass a bill doesn’t require 60%. And the house is pretty much always simple majority, a tie is actually a failure to pass a bill.
Reading a bit further up, it is 67 votes in the Senate for treaties and impeachment convictions - Source
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
On the other hand they only need a simple majority to confirm a Supreme Court majority of buffoons that don’t actually give a shit about the Constitution or even internally consistency, over their personal pet project to turn their country into an authoritarian state.
stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 2 days ago
correct, and that’s exactly how the American president became a king.
the Legislature gradually warped into a machine that never claimed or exercised power for itself (by enacting laws or protections) but only ever ceded power to the Executive (via appointment approvals, judicial nominations, etc).
if Congress had done it’s job over say, the entirety of Mitch McConnells time in office, the power of the president today would be dramatically diminished.
the US govt was completely captured long before Trump took office. they really rolled out the red carpet for an authoritarian criminal to just run with it.