Biden’s Base Wants Supreme Court Reform. He Doesn’t.

[Magnus]

Progressives responded to this week’s sweeping Supreme Court decisions with a clear message: It is time to reshape the high court.

But Joe Biden isn’t convinced.

The president, a staunch institutionalist, has largely rejected calls from liberals to push for term limits for justices and for expanding the size of the court, warning that doing so could further politicize the judiciary.

Public confidence in the Supreme Court has declined, driven in large part by the unpopularity of its ruling last year overturning a constitutional right to abortion. Some 31% of voters held a positive view of the high court in an NBC News poll released this week, a record low since the poll first asked about the court in 1992 and significantly below the 50% with a positive view in 2018. Some 40% in the new survey had a negative view of the court.

Some polls have found support for term limits for Supreme Court justices, but opinion on adding additional justices to the court has been divided. About two-thirds of Americans favored term limits or a mandatory retirement age for the justices in an Associated Press-NORC poll last July, taken just weeks after the high court’s ruling on abortion.

But Biden hasn’t budged in his reluctance to support changes at the court.

In an interview this week with MSNBC, Biden said the nation’s high court had done “more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions” than any Supreme Court in recent history. But he added, “If we start the process of trying to expand the court, we’re going to politicize it, maybe forever, in a way that is not healthy.”

Biden’s Base Wants Supreme Court Reform. He Doesn’t.

The president has largely rejected calls from liberals to push for term limits and expansion, warning that doing so could further politicize the judiciary.

www.wsj.com

 

[Thinker101]

Progressives responded to this week’s sweeping Supreme Court decisions with a clear message: It is time to reshape the high court.

But Joe Biden isn’t convinced.

The president, a staunch institutionalist, has largely rejected calls from liberals to push for term limits for justices and for expanding the size of the court, warning that doing so could further politicize the judiciary.

Public confidence in the Supreme Court has declined, driven in large part by the unpopularity of its ruling last year overturning a constitutional right to abortion. Some 31% of voters held a positive view of the high court in an NBC News poll released this week, a record low since the poll first asked about the court in 1992 and significantly below the 50% with a positive view in 2018. Some 40% in the new survey had a negative view of the court.

Some polls have found support for term limits for Supreme Court justices, but opinion on adding additional justices to the court has been divided. About two-thirds of Americans favored term limits or a mandatory retirement age for the justices in an Associated Press-NORC poll last July, taken just weeks after the high court’s ruling on abortion.

But Biden hasn’t budged in his reluctance to support changes at the court.

In an interview this week with MSNBC, Biden said the nation’s high court had done “more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions” than any Supreme Court in recent history. But he added, “If we start the process of trying to expand the court, we’re going to politicize it, maybe forever, in a way that is not healthy.”

Biden’s Base Wants Supreme Court Reform. He Doesn’t.

The president has largely rejected calls from liberals to push for term limits and expansion, warning that doing so could further politicize the judiciary.

www.wsj.com

The term you're looking for is "packing the court".

 

[Magnus]

The term you're looking for is "packing the court".

Yeah, I do know the term. Did you read the article or is this the usual knee-jerk (with the emphasis on jerk) response?

 

[Dogmaphobe]

OF COURSE Stalinists want to stack the court with fellow Stalinists.

They hate every liberal principle in the world and will stop at nothing to implement their jack-booted authoritarianism on us all.

 

[jotathought]

Supreme Court Reform .. translated .. Liberal Majority

 

[1srelluc]

Progressives responded to this week’s sweeping Supreme Court decisions with a clear message: It is time to reshape the high court.

But Joe Biden isn’t convinced.

The president, a staunch institutionalist, has largely rejected calls from liberals to push for term limits for justices and for expanding the size of the court, warning that doing so could further politicize the judiciary.

Public confidence in the Supreme Court has declined, driven in large part by the unpopularity of its ruling last year overturning a constitutional right to abortion. Some 31% of voters held a positive view of the high court in an NBC News poll released this week, a record low since the poll first asked about the court in 1992 and significantly below the 50% with a positive view in 2018. Some 40% in the new survey had a negative view of the court.

Some polls have found support for term limits for Supreme Court justices, but opinion on adding additional justices to the court has been divided. About two-thirds of Americans favored term limits or a mandatory retirement age for the justices in an Associated Press-NORC poll last July, taken just weeks after the high court’s ruling on abortion.

But Biden hasn’t budged in his reluctance to support changes at the court.

In an interview this week with MSNBC, Biden said the nation’s high court had done “more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions” than any Supreme Court in recent history. But he added, “If we start the process of trying to expand the court, we’re going to politicize it, maybe forever, in a way that is not healthy.”

Biden’s Base Wants Supreme Court Reform. He Doesn’t.

The president has largely rejected calls from liberals to push for term limits and expansion, warning that doing so could further politicize the judiciary.

www.wsj.com

 

[jotathought]

Progressives responded to this week’s sweeping Supreme Court decisions with a clear message: It is time to reshape the high court.

This is a stupid approach to pack the court .. What happens when the Republican candidate wins the presidency. We'll end up with 86 people on the Supreme Court.

"Reform" needs to happen organically and whoever is president, will be the lucky individual to nominate replacements.

 

[jotathought]

HAHAHA ... Pappy O'Daniel looks just like a fat Joe Biden, except much more alert and articulate.

 

[Lesh]

OF COURSE Stalinists want to stack the court with fellow Stalinists.

They hate every liberal principle in the world and will stop at nothing to implement their jack-booted authoritarianism on us all.

Of course authoritarian right wingers have stacked the Courts with authoritarian corporatist who are ethically challenged.

THEY hate every liberal principle that the Courts have upheld over the last 80 years and are trying their damndest to roll them back

 

[jotathought]

Biden's base includes many low information constituents (a majority of all voters across party lines), who know more about sports and pop culture than they do about politics, government 101 and the people they vote for ..

 

[Magnus]

This is a stupid approach to pack the court .. What happens when the Republican candidate wins the presidency. We'll end up with 86 people on the Supreme Court.

"Reform" needs to happen organically and whoever is president, will be the lucky individual to nominate replacements.

<sigh> Seriously, do you guys know how to read? What do you think the article is about?

 

[LeroyDumonde]

The only way an age limit would look nonpartisan is if all the current justices are exempt. Otherwise it looks like it's targeting Justice Thomas, which is exactly what it's doing.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Of course authoritarian right wingers have stacked the Courts with authoritarian corporatist who are ethically challenged.

THEY hate every liberal principle that the Courts have upheld over the last 80 years and are trying their damndest to roll them back

Let see here -- the liberal notion of egalitarianism where every person is treated the same. They just did away with the profoundly illiberal notion of racial privilege represented by affirmative action.

Or the liberal notion of free expression -- they just ruled against forced speech, didn't they?
The problem here, child, is that you are too ignorant to understand what liberalism actually IS and only associate it with anything Democrats tell you by way of how things must be.

 

[JohnDB]

Of course authoritarian right wingers have stacked the Courts with authoritarian corporatist who are ethically challenged.

THEY hate every liberal principle that the Courts have upheld over the last 80 years and are trying their damndest to roll them back

Three separate branches of Government....each with specific duties.
The problem is that the Democrats have regularly used the Federal Circuit Courts as a means to enact legislation when they can't get congress to enact legislation.

And that's been a massive overreaching by the courts....which in part has been retaliation for congress enacting minimum/maximum sentencing guidelines.

The Presidents have also overstepped often with excessive discretionary spending and outright defiance of dictates from congress.
A little bit of shoving the manure back in the mule is called for here.

 

[Magnus]

The only way an age limit would look nonpartisan is if all the current justices are exempt. Otherwise it looks like it's targeting Justice Thomas, which is exactly what it's doing.

Not age limits. Term limits. Big difference.

 

[fncceo]

Progressives responded to this week’s sweeping Supreme Court decisions with a clear message: It is time to reshape the high court.

Ah... the "I'm taking my ball and going home" response.

 

[LeroyDumonde]

Not age limits. Term limits. Big difference.

That's even worse.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Biden is correct.

The millennials and the greens cost HRC the election in 2016. She was warning about SCOTUS. She was right.

Although I really don't like her, voting for her would have avoided all this.

 

[Magnus]

Ah... the "I'm taking my ball and going home" response.

Are you ok, bud? Your idiom is actually...er... idiotic.

Liberals Progressives are not "taking the ball and going home". Rather, they are "all in". Try again.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Are you ok, bud? Your idiom is actually...er... idiotic. Liberals are not "taking the ball and going home". Rather, they are "all in". Try again.

Progs are not liberals, and liberals are not all in.