NPV would be insulated from SCOTUS bullshit by an explicit authorizing act. USC 1 § 10:
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, … enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, …
There is some precedent suggesting that a compact which decreases the power of the states wouldn’t need it, but precedent also said abortion was a right, the 14th amendment was self-executing, and POTUS could forgive debts.
Yes. Dem-conteoled states should pass National popular vote. And then they should gerrymander to the most extreme maps they can.
The Dems in Congress can draft a federal law banning gerrymandering nationwide, and the Republicans can either join in or die as a party.
Gerrymandering is required in order to give minority groups representation.
The 2028 midterm election should refute that idea more thoroughly than the 1865 surrender refuted the idea that US states were sovereigns who could secede.
The electoral college almost made sense when the president was essentially a functionary of what Congress wanted.
Indirect election of someone with actual power is indefensible. Every person with power should either be directly answerable to an elected office or have so little power that their tyrannies can be ignored.
And interestingly, the NPVC apparently has text specifying how a state could withdraw.
https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/bill-text