Biden says the next president may get to name two Supreme Court justices
LOS ANGELES – President Biden on Saturday night said he expects the winner of this year’s presidential election will likely have the chance to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court – a decision he warned would be “one of the scariest parts” if his Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, is successful in his bid for a second term.
Just think, if some sit home or vote third party like they did in 2000 and 2016, we could hand over at least two more SC seats and our rights and privacy with them.
Letting good be the enemy of perfect is a fool's errand. And we have an illegal war, a slew of bad rulings, and five lost opportunities on the SC to prove it. So, yeah go vote for Jill, Cornie or Bobby. Just don't come bitching to me if Trump wins.
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All of them should be retired and let an entire new crew have a shot at it. Term limits for ALL
Hell, he may name 5 if he guns down 5 of the current ones. Crime doesn't matter when you're the president, and the next 5 you name can agree with you. Or they can also be gunned down.
There is no limit, stop pretending.
Is Dark Brandon planning something?
According to his opponent, Brandon can murder people to get the job done, so ... maybe?
based on the ages of the two presidential candidates, we are also looking at the best chance in recent memory for a vice president to become president
The next president, not the current one, since the ones we have will wait decades before letting a Democrat replace them.
Not if the republicans have anything to say about it.
I wouldn't put it past them to say it's too close to the 2028 election to appoint any new justices if a Democrat wins.
They're not going to retire until it's a republican in office.
Only option for Democrats is expanding the courts, which neolibs will not do, because then they'd have fewer excuses for not doing their job.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
LOS ANGELES – President Biden on Saturday night said he expects the winner of this year’s presidential election will likely have the chance to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court – a decision he warned would be “one of the scariest parts” if his Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, is successful in his bid for a second term.
The event featured Hollywood stars like George Clooney and Julia Roberts, as well as former President Barack Obama.
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel moderated a conversation with Biden and Obama, and the two presidents talked about the impact that Trump had on issues like abortion rights by naming conservative justices to the Supreme Court.
Trump named three justices during his term – Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanagh and Amy Coney Barrett – cementing the conservative majority on the bench.
Biden, who flew to Los Angeles on the heels of attending the G7 summit in Italy, did not expand upon how the two vacancies on the court would come about.
“The next president -- they’re going to be able to appoint a couple of justices,” Biden said in Philadelphia at the launch of an effort to court Black voters.
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Biden is older than the two oldest Supreme Court Justices, and Trump is more or less the same age, so it's more like the next Vice President will get to name two Supreme Court Justices... :)
Biden - 81
Trump - 78
Thomas - 75
Alito - 74
I mean, it depends on how many we whack, doesn't it.
Uh . . that is . . . how many . . . um . . others . . . uhhhhh . . . that is, to say - in a, in a manner of speaking, if y'know . . . ummm. . . . y'know life is a . . a fleeting . . it's, it's very . . . so. . . Yeah.
I have always been disappointed there was no guillotine emoji.
...in Minecraft
. . . Right! Heh heh. Yes in - that thing they said.
Pulling out that scare tactic again? Instead of spending time earning votes and creating an environment where people would want to vote for him, he resorts to the typical Boogeyman politics.
People like you still won't accept that it's your fucking fault that Trump won in 2016 in the first place, and as a direct result, completely fucked the SCOTUS over for a generation, setting us back decades.
And you're going to do it again. Because the Dems don't tuck you in at night and tell you that they love you.
It's not a "Boogeyman" or a "scare tactic" if it actually happened. Trump did appoint three justices, those justices were significantly more right-wing than the ones they replaced, and as a result they actually did overturn Roe v. Wade and a side swath of other rights and regulations. Maybe keep that very recent history in mind when you hear the same people who warned about it then warning about him trying to end democracy in America now.
As a single father to two girls (ages 8 and 10) Republicans can fuck ALL of the way off. When they didn't call out Mitch McConnell's hypocrisy with Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland vs Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, you lost me for the rest of my life.
The part that really gets my goat on abortion is it only affects those without the means to travel. The rich and well connected (so basically every politician) can just fly to a country that treats its citizens with empathy when their daughter gets pregnant from a rape for an abortion, but they'll look down from their ivory towers and tell MY daughter she somehow asked for it, and should therefore live with the consequences.
@anticolonialist@lemmy.world The choices this next election seem to be Biden or Trump. I can't change who is running, I can only choose who I would pick to win. Who do you plan on voting for?
The current president could name six Supreme Court Justices today, if the Democrats were better at this.
I know it feels good to say "Pack the court", but it would turn it into a clown show with every new president adding double what the previous president added.
Yes yes this is where you say it's already a clown show, and then I say it'd be even more, etc.
The Republicans will do whatever benefits them anyway. They haven't needed to expand the court because there's been a conservative majority for basically forever.
Limiting your actions because the Republicans will act in bad faith in the future is never going to get you anywhere.
Yup. Until at some point the American people got fed up with the clown show. But some of us have been waiting for them to get fed up with it for quite some time. Maybe this would exasperate the issue to the point where we actually do something.
packing the court would set the billionaires giving the court gifts back like 20 years. I don't buy the nonesense about how its a "norm" that's shit the media made up out of pocket. There used to be 6 justices. That is the original precedent.
Not quite.
If you mean that all six conservatives could be impeached today, there really is only damning evidence against two of them right now and impeachment has to start in the Republican-controlled House and get a 2/3 vote in the Senate, none of which have a chance of happening.
If you mean that Democrats could expand the Court to 15 today, that also has to go through the Republican House first, as well as centrist Democrats in both houses who might view that as too extreme. I am an advocate for expanding the Court, but I would stop at 13.
I also think 13 is a good number because that would be 1 Supreme Court justice for each circuit court
But getting to that will be hard and not to mention unless a cap is put in place (I prefer tying it to the number of circuit courts) then the next person who scoots in could expand it further with less push back due to it having been done just recently
The last thing we need is every president who scoots into office appointing more and more justices until it gets out of hand
Democrats are never as good at predicting something as they are when they are predicting the things they cannot accomplish
Or if he'd have six Justices assassinated as an official act, making him immune to prosecution according to the Republicans.
Obviously that's a terrible idea, but what is stopping a dictator from doing that in the US? The Supreme Court is the arbiter of whether things are legal. Literally what is stopping a dictatorial president from killing or threatening the Justices and replacing them with cronies?
Yet another argument for term limits on Justices.
One, they haven't had the votes since Biden became President. Two, that doesn't fix anything. If we had 6 more liberal justices today they can't just say, "Hey, let's undo the bad decisions from the last 15 years." They need to address the issues that come before them in regular fashion. If the Democrats had the votes they need to just start codifying everything we take for granted AND institute reforms (e.g. no more fucking filibuster, no stock trades for elected officials, and a SCOTUS code of ethics).
Adding justices does fix one thing: more justices mean that for billionaires to bribe them it requires bribing a lot more of them.
Don't worry, I've been told if we just keep electing right-wing corporate neolibs they'll eventually magically change one day and reverse their drift to the right.
No one has been able to actually articulate how that wotks, but that's the plan. Apparently.
just one more
laneneolib and we'll finally fixtrafficrightshifting bro