Biden worries ‘extreme’ supreme court can’t be relied on to uphold rule of law

A system that appoints supreme constitutional judges for life and without even halfway serious democratic checks and balances seems to me the perfect recipe for disaster and corruption. But hey, I'm from Europe, so what do I know... ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Joe Biden worries that the “extreme” US supreme court, dominated by rightwing justices, cannot be relied upon to uphold the rule of law.

If he really worries about that, and is not just scaring people to vote for him, then he has a responsibility to enlarge the court.

I am concerned about the obvious concerning things as well. Y'all should make me your leader.

Then maybe he should have packed the court with some good judges

At least they're finally starting to get a clue that "They go low, we go high" is bullshit

Damn, did he just now notice this?

To me, as a non-American, the most baffling thing is that everyone in the States just assumes, and accepts, that these appointed justices are going to rule according to some political bias.

That's not the way it works in the rest of the free world. Judges are, by definition, trusted to be impartial interpreters of the law/constitution. That's their role.

I live in Canada, and I'm vaguely familiar with some of the names of our Supreme Court justices, but I certainly don't know their political leanings, nor do I care. Nor does any Canadian I know. That's the way it's supposed to be.

So as far as I can see, the problem isn't that SCOTUS is stacked with Republicans, nor that it can be. The problem is that everyone seems to assume that this is the way it should be.

COLOUR ME SHOCKED

Can they write this article without Biden...?

Okay, but "The Extreme Court" does sound a lot cooler.

He's not alone

And proceeds to do fuck all about it! Awesome.

I mean, if this is the way the executive branch is talking about the judicial branch, both of them should be forced to resign and be replaced with other people.

How that is, I have no clue, but you can't run a country with distrust like this.

COLOÙR ME SHOCKED

If team magma wins, what will the water Pokemon do??

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-promise-tracker/?ruling=true

That’s alright. A decision to release billions to Iran to cause a war is so much worse.

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Social contract is unraveling.

I think each state should have 1 justice. Enough of this supreme 9 crap.

"Joe Biden worries that the “extreme” US supreme court, dominated by rightwing justices, cannot be relied upon to uphold the rule of law ACCORDING TO DEMOCRATS."

Fixed if for you.

The reasons he was Obama's VP:

1. He was "the Republican Senator whisper"

2. He was supposed to be there to guide Obama

He was supposed to be the one that got that SC pick thru, but I don't remember seeing a single article or interview where he tried.

That 5 years later people forgot and started claiming Joe was "the Senate whisper" again was just fucking ridiculous. The only thing worse was when Biden implied once the Dems had a white man as president, suddenly Republicans would be super cool again.

In these comments: a shit ton of people who have zero idea how their own country works. Y’all are an embarrassment to yourselves and your countrymen.

Cool. Impeachments when? Oh wait never, cause talk is cheap

If only you were in a position to do something about it...