Posted on 10/14/2020 4:36:16 PM PDT by rustyweiss74
The idea of court-packing is one Joe Biden was once opposed, calling it a “bonehead idea” during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 1983.
Biden’s comments were made responding to an attempt from then-President Ronald Reagan who sought to replace three members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
The current Democrat nominee for the presidency had argued against the move, comparing it to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s unsuccessful attempts in 1937 to pack the Supreme Court.
“President Roosevelt clearly had the right to send to the United States Senate and the United States Congress a proposal to pack the court,” Biden argued.
“It was totally within his right to do that. He violated no law. He was legalistically, absolutely correct.”
He continued, “But it was a bonehead idea. It was a terrible, terrible mistake to make.”
“It put in question, if for an entire decade, the independence of the most-significant body …
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They’ll just say his opinion has evolved.
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