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

[Magnus]

That's even worse.

How? We have term limits for Mayors, Governors & Presidents. Why not Supreme Court Justices?

Congress has limits built in due to their seeking elections. For the SC, the only limit is their mortality. Unless they choose to retire.

 

[1srelluc]

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.

That's fine.....Let the DNC make "minorities should be shown preference" a plank.....And watch Indy votes melt away....Like tears in the rain.



Nah, you are just gonna stand there and bleed.

 

[Magnus]

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

Agreed. But, I was responding to the poster. Progressives are not "taking their ball and going home"... they want to actively fight this by changing the rules.

Misguided, yes but far from retiring from the scene.

 

[Lesh]

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.

And making them subject to ethics rules would be going after Thomas because he is of course “ethically challenged”

 

[LeroyDumonde]

How? We have term limits for Mayors, Governors & Presidents. Why not Supreme Court Justices?

Congress has limits built in due to their seeking elections. For the SC, the only limit is their mortality. Unless they choose to retire.

Because that politicizes the Court even more than it already is. Court appointment will be subject to the whims of the day more frequently then they already are.

 

[LeroyDumonde]

And making them subject to ethics rules would be going after Thomas because he is of course “ethically challenged”

Actually all of them have been guilty of the same things. The MSM is only going after Justice Thomas because he's the most conservative on the bench. If they succeed in getting him then Alito is the next target.

 

[Lesh]

Actually all of them have been guilty of the same things. The MSM is only going after Justice Thomas because he's the most conservative on the bench. If they succeed in getting him then Alito is the next target.

You’re correct. Alito is also ethically challenged

 

[Lesh]

Because that politicizes the Court even more than it already is. Court appointment will be subject to the whims of the day more frequently then they already are.

It could hardly get more political

 

[Dogmaphobe]

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.

You idiots would have us all "progress" all the way back to the seventh century if you could.

The tribe-based politics you play is extremely primitive.

 

[Billo_Really]

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

We have to expand the Court, if only to give a big fuck you to the right!

 

[Independent thinker]

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

People are just too stupid and shouldn't be allowed to vote when they are that stupid. It is NOT the Supreme Court's job to rule in what is best for the country or by their emotions or by public opinion. They are supposed to rule based on laws and the Constitution. The Supreme Court just ruled what the left have always claimed to believe - that we should not discriminate based on race. I find it amazing that even the three liberal justices believe that we should discriminate based on race regarding college admissions. Is discrimination by race against the law or not? If it is, then how on Earth can you vote against getting rid of discrimination based on race? If you are against discrimination based on race then you should be against discrimination based on race. That's a no brainer, which even the three liberal justices don't seem to believe in.

 

[Stormy Daniels]

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

"Reform" is a funny word. It's a great sanitizer. Want to do something extreme and radical? Call it reform and people will buy it.

 

[Stormy Daniels]

How? We have term limits for Mayors, Governors & Presidents. Why not Supreme Court Justices?

Congress has limits built in due to their seeking elections. For the SC, the only limit is their mortality. Unless they choose to retire.

Liberals complain about Justice Barrett being appointed to replace RBG, but they never want to blame RBG for staying too long. She made her choice, and decided to try to outrun Mother Nature. It didn't work.

See, conservatives understand the value of planning and preparation far better than liberals. Not sure why that is, exactly, it just seems to be baked in for some reason.

But even though liberals probably won't ever get it through their heads, and most liberal justices will likely continue to repeat RBG's mistakes, I think some Democrats somewhere along the way will eventually realize that when they hold both Congress and the White House, they have sufficient power to effect change without resorting to anything as radical as court packing. It's very simple. All they need to do is create a temporary expansion of one Justice.

Next time Dems controls both Houses and the Presidency, they should pass a bill that expands the court by ONE justice, and further specifies that upon the next naturally occurring vacancy in the court, the new vacancy will become null with the court returning to its previous size. They can then have their President add one more justice.

 

[BluesLegend]

When Dems lose they always seek to corrupt the system to RIG it in their favor. Remember Dems are scumbags. They yap on about 'democracy' but it's FAKE. They only support democracy when it rules in their favor. There was a statewide vote in California, Dems didn't like how the people voted so they ran to the courts to overturn the will of the people.

 

[yidnar]

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

he will come out in favor of packing the court soon !

 

[Thinker101]

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

Fer Christ sake, you copied and pasted enough of the article, now you want me to read the link. Does it refer to stacking the court in its more accurate name...cheating?

 

[Magnus]

Fer Christ sake, you copied and pasted enough of the article, now you want me to read the link. Does it refer to stacking the court in its more accurate name...cheating?

We got it the first time. You are a retard. Don't have to keep proving it.

 

[hadit]

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

There's no stacking.

 

[22lcidw]

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

The only thing Republicans support and that is not a guarantee are the court picks. I would like to know all of the political persuasion's judges passed the last two years by the Senate.

 

[Rogue AI]

Not age limits. Term limits. Big difference.

I think one lifetime is term limit enough.