Posted on 10/09/2020 12:27:24 PM PDT by Zenyatta
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says he refuses to speak on whether he plans to “pack” the Supreme Court because, he implied, that would deflect attention from President Trump.
“You’ll know my opinion on court-packing when the election is over,” Biden told reporters alongside running mate Kamala Harris. “Now look, I know it’s a great question and I don’t blame you for asking, but you know the moment I answer that question, the headline in every one of your papers will be about that other than focusing on what’s happening now.”
“The election has begun. There has never been a court appointment once an election [has] begun,” Biden said. “Four million or so people have already voted. They’re denying the American people the one shot they have under constitutional law to be able to have their input.”
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And the press lets them get away with this
so blatant the bias is
In what verse is that the statement of a sane adult who presumes to be President of the US?
Not a single original thought from this demented idiot.
See also "You gotta pass the bill to see what you are gonna save!" - Crooked Nancy Peloski.
He’s admitting that packing the court would be unpopular and that he plans to do it. What a moron!
It’s not his Opinion that we want, it’s his Position.
Now we have Politicians who are running for Office without telling us what they stand for? How does that work?
Who would believe him anyway?
It’s the “democratic” way.
He’s waiting for Pelousy, AOC, Bernie, et al to tell him what he thinks about court packing.
You have to vote for the Democrat candidate to find out his debate rhetoric is a bunch of Stalinist malarkey.
This was his (non)answer during the debate.
He’s admitting that his will be a rubber stamp Dictatorship.
Flashback: Kamala Harris said she was open to packing Supreme Court to shift balance away from conservatives
‘We have to take this challenge head-on, and everything is on the table to do that,’ she said.
2020 Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris went on record last year saying she might support adding additional seats to the Supreme Court, in an effort to swing the ideological balance of the judicial branch back to the left.
Beginning with Robert Bork’s failed nomination by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s — and continuing up until the most recent nomination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh — Senate confirmation fights have turned into political do-or-dies for both sides of the aisle, as reflected by Harris’ past comments to Politico.
“We are on the verge of a crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court,” Harris said last March, according to Politico. “We have to take this challenge head-on, and everything is on the table to do that.” Harris also reportedly shared similar sentiments with the New York Times, saying she was “absolutely open to” packing the court. The California Democrat was not the only member of her party’s presidential hopefuls to commit to a court-packing strategy if Trump continued to see success in reshaping the high court. Some even offered proposals to add up to 10 more members. Though justices are nominated by the president — and confirmed with the advice and consent of the Senate — judicial nominees were not thought to be an absolute issue. More often than not, Republicans and Democrats were capable of compromise. In the last several decades, however, the country has seen a historic escalation that has shattered any expectation of bipartisan unity on the matter.
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Sens.Cory Booker, D-N.J., Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., all signaled an openness to overhauling the court if they became president. Progressive groups have also devoted funding to push the message to the public, in an effort to tap into perceived liberal anger over Trump’s judicial efficiency.
“First they steal a Supreme Court seat, and then they turn around and change the rules on the filibuster on a Supreme Court seat,” Warren said during a podcast interview last year. “So when it swings back to us what are we going to do? I think all the options are on the table.”—SNIP—
we will also know the opinion of the american voter on court packing come election day.
Republicans need to explain what “packing the supreme court” means.
Libtards have created a lunatic base that they cannot trust with the truth.
To be a democrap means you are a liar.
Exactly!
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