https://twitter.com/oliver_drk/status/1380201564745388033

I suppose in theory uninformed people not voting is a reasonable idea... but I can't remember right-wingers floating this during the 4 years we were governed by an evil, incompetent reality show star.




There's a near zero chance Biden would try to expand the Supreme Court.

His major governing pursuits are popular. Expanding the Supreme Court would not be.

This post was edited by IceMage on Apr 9 2021 11:09am

Agreed, Biden is in for an easy ride if he can hold the economy together while pushing things like ineffectual gun control, infrastructure packages, and stimulus checks. no reason for him to get into choppy waters at this time.

It is interesting to see how the bipartisan term "Court-packing", used for decades by members of both parties, has been summarily dropped in favor of Court "balancing".

And we wonder why vast tracts of this country consider the media an established wing of the Democratic party.

He's going to have a hell of a time being confirmed. He's lied about far too many things and is going to be raked over the coals. This seems like a sacrificial lamb.


You're overreacting because there's zero chance that Congress acts on the commission's findings. This is Biden just checking a box to fulfill a campaign promise. Also, McConnell effectively packed SCOTUS over the past 5 years so it really shouldn't rustle your jimmies.

This post was edited by thundercock on Apr 9 2021 11:33am

This strikes me as pretty objective language. Just because politicians on both sides use pejorative terms doesn't mean the media has to.

With the current filibuster rules, a bill can be stopped infintely. If a standing filibuster is required, the minority party can at most hope to delay a bill by like... 3-4 months? if they go all out in their efforts. Doesnt seem like "same strength" to me.


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Well, his major governing priorities so far have been popular. (There's lots of smaller stuff being pushed by his admin which is aids though.)
This does not rule out that he might turn to controversial or unpopular stuff later on in his presidency.

In any case, I think this panel/commission is an attempt by Biden to deflect the left's pressure for packing the Supreme Court rather than a genuine effort on his side to ram it through.
"Creating a commission to study doing X" is textbook political language for "I dont actually want to do X, but I cant say that out loud and want to buy time until everyone has forgotten about X".

Probably because McConnell owned the libs so badly that the game changed? Brett Kavanaugh is the median Justice on the Court so it IS unbalanced from an ideological perspective. The Court was 5-4 for many many decades and now it's not.

Look, I'm glad that SCOTUS is going to be conservative for years to come, but you seem to struggle with some insanely obvious concepts.

Indeed. There will likely be a commission on reparations too if there isn't one already. TBH, we should expand the judiciary in general so that we can hear more cases. The first one would have to be immigration courts. Those are ridiculously understaffed.

Of course he's not, you're being ridiculous.

The Supreme Court is not and shouldn't be viewed as extensions of our two main political parties. Breyer spoke at length about this a few days ago. Packing the courts for the express purpose of effecting ideological change would destroy the Court's credibility. It would be orders of magnitude worse than anything Trump has or could reasonably have done.

Kavanaugh and Barrett are squishy and Roberts is already the chief architect of saying it is constitutional for unmitigated taxing of people for products they dont use or want. it’s hardly reich-wing despite the media’s doomsday fearmongering