President Biden said he won’t expand the Supreme Court because doing so would “politicize” the court in an unhealthy way. But it’s a political institution by its nature — and a disturbingly undemocratic one.

President Biden said he won’t expand the Supreme Court because doing so would “politicize” the court in an unhealthy way. But it’s a political institution by its nature — and a disturbingly undemocratic one.

  • orcrist
    32•2 years ago

    This is classic Biden. It’s classic center-right Democrat speak. The Republicans predictably do something bad decades after they started trying to accomplish it, and centrist Washington Democrats sit around doing nothing. I can’t say they betrayed my expectations because this is exactly what they have been doing for the last 20 years.

    • SomeDude
      2•2 years ago

      and centrist Washington Democrats sit around doing nothing

      Democrats have only the slimmest possible Senate majority and lost the House majority. If voters don’t give them the tools to unfuck what Republicans do, it’s not the Democrats fault.

      You voters gave Republicans 3 Surpreme court judges. It was your fault in 2016, it is your responsibility to fix it. You can’t blame democrats for “doing nothing” when you don’t let them do anything

      • bobthened
        0•2 years ago

        It is their fault, because if the Republicans were in the same position, they would be trying every single trick in the book, pulling in every favour, possible to get their way.

        • SomeDude
          1•2 years ago

          “Republicans are a hateful group that can always settle on the worst politics imaginable. Why can’t democrats be like that?”

          Gee, I wonder why.

          But since you admire Republicans so much, here, have a proper “Biden Criticism Guide”. You seem to follow it verbatim for some reason.

    • yunggwailo
      6•2 years ago

      If FDR couldnt pack the courts what makes you think Biden can with far less support

      • KilgoreTheTrout11
        13•2 years ago

        I don’t think he can, but he shouldn’t give up the fight before it’s even started. If you have the presidency the bully pulpit you could at least start to put the idea into the minds of the Americans and normalize. It certainly better than just bending over.

        Mean there’s not a very good chance for a single-payer healthcare system to be instituted anytime soon but that doesn’t mean politician shouldn’t openly advocate for it.

        • BraveSirZaphod
          4•2 years ago

          To be clear, there is zero fight to be had. The composition of the Court can only be modified by Congress. The GOP led House is not going to pass a bill allowing the Democrat President to add new judges to the Court.

          Given that reality, there’s simply nothing Biden could do even if he wanted to.

        • keeb420
          7•2 years ago

          this is the same president that used the bully pulpit to force a deal… on striking rail workers who were asking for reasonable days off.

      • CoWizard
        7•2 years ago

        Obama couldn’t even get Merrick Garland on the bench… This country is ill

    • KilgoreTheTrout11
      9•2 years ago

      Yeah this is basically the way the Democrats of operated my entire life and possibly longer.

      They claim there needs to be a strong Republican party and that they want bipartisanship. They already are starting off as being More right wing than every single European conservative party or any conservative party in the OECD basically on issues like health care and social policy.

      Same with the debt ceiling thing. There was a million ways around that besides caving to the Republicans on cutting food stamps.