President Biden said he won’t expand the Supreme Court because doing so would “politicize” the court in an unhealthy way. But it’s a political institution by its nature — and a disturbingly undemocratic one.

President Biden said he won’t expand the Supreme Court because doing so would “politicize” the court in an unhealthy way. But it’s a political institution by its nature — and a disturbingly undemocratic one.

  • orcrist@kbin.social
    32·
    1 year ago

    This is classic Biden. It’s classic center-right Democrat speak. The Republicans predictably do something bad decades after they started trying to accomplish it, and centrist Washington Democrats sit around doing nothing. I can’t say they betrayed my expectations because this is exactly what they have been doing for the last 20 years.

    • KilgoreTheTrout11@kbin.social
      9·
      1 year ago

      Yeah this is basically the way the Democrats of operated my entire life and possibly longer.

      They claim there needs to be a strong Republican party and that they want bipartisanship. They already are starting off as being More right wing than every single European conservative party or any conservative party in the OECD basically on issues like health care and social policy.

      Same with the debt ceiling thing. There was a million ways around that besides caving to the Republicans on cutting food stamps.

      • KilgoreTheTrout11@kbin.social
        13·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think he can, but he shouldn’t give up the fight before it’s even started. If you have the presidency the bully pulpit you could at least start to put the idea into the minds of the Americans and normalize. It certainly better than just bending over.

        Mean there’s not a very good chance for a single-payer healthcare system to be instituted anytime soon but that doesn’t mean politician shouldn’t openly advocate for it.

        • keeb420@kbin.social
          7·
          1 year ago

          this is the same president that used the bully pulpit to force a deal… on striking rail workers who were asking for reasonable days off.

        • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
          4·
          1 year ago

          To be clear, there is zero fight to be had. The composition of the Court can only be modified by Congress. The GOP led House is not going to pass a bill allowing the Democrat President to add new judges to the Court.

          Given that reality, there’s simply nothing Biden could do even if he wanted to.

      • bobthened
        1·
        1 year ago

        It is their fault, because if the Republicans were in the same position, they would be trying every single trick in the book, pulling in every favour, possible to get their way.

          • bobthened
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’m not interested in any of that. And I really don’t admire republicans. But it can’t be denied that they do actually accomplish things, something that can’t really be said of establishment centrists/centre-right parties. Obviously what they’re accomplishing is awful and they use pretty shady methods to do it.