A leaked video appears to show Republican officials at a meeting held by an anti-abortion group pushing for women to be prosecuted for having abortions.
In other words, you can’t give a reason for Sinema and Manchin to support Biden if he did this or name two Republicans.
Because as far as I can tell, the ‘immense opportunity’ would also be there to say no to every single judge and not allow Biden to increase the size of the Supreme Court. Which they would totally do since even plenty of Democrats would be against it.
Why you think this is a politically winning issue I don’t know. If it were, it would have been done already by other presidents. Do you think Clinton would have had a court with Thomas, Scalia and all the other Republican appointees? Do you think Clinton would have dealt with Rehnquist as chief justice if he didn’t have to?
Even FDR had the Supreme Court working against him. Why didn’t he expand the court so all of his New Deal programs would pass? Do you think maybe it’s because it is not something the Senate would ever agree to or do you think FDR was just less popular than Biden?
So what would the point of Biden trying be exactly? Because it sounds purely performative and the Senate already wastes way too much time on performative bullshit.
He could literally do nothing about the Dobbs decision. It was entirely out of his hands. The executive branch does not control the judicial branch. That’s the whole point of the separation of powers.
In other words, you can’t give a reason for Sinema and Manchin to support Biden if he did this or name two Republicans.
Because as far as I can tell, the ‘immense opportunity’ would also be there to say no to every single judge and not allow Biden to increase the size of the Supreme Court. Which they would totally do since even plenty of Democrats would be against it.
Why you think this is a politically winning issue I don’t know. If it were, it would have been done already by other presidents. Do you think Clinton would have had a court with Thomas, Scalia and all the other Republican appointees? Do you think Clinton would have dealt with Rehnquist as chief justice if he didn’t have to?
Even FDR had the Supreme Court working against him. Why didn’t he expand the court so all of his New Deal programs would pass? Do you think maybe it’s because it is not something the Senate would ever agree to or do you think FDR was just less popular than Biden?
fdr at least tried.
When did he try to expand the court? Details please.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Procedures_Reform_Bill_of_1937
Okay. Fair enough. He tried.
And he failed.
So what would the point of Biden trying be exactly? Because it sounds purely performative and the Senate already wastes way too much time on performative bullshit.
I was just spit balling. he could literally do anything to fix the situations we are facing instead of not.
He could literally do nothing about the Dobbs decision. It was entirely out of his hands. The executive branch does not control the judicial branch. That’s the whole point of the separation of powers.
he could have introduced a constitutional amendment. he could have packed the court. he did nothing.
he could introduce a constitutional amendment. he could pack the court. he could do something.
A constitutional amendment takes a supermajority of congress and 2/3rds of the states to ratify it. That is literally impossible for Biden to achieve.
We already talked about how he would fail at packing the courts.
I think you don’t really have a good understanding of how the U.S. government works.
he didn’t even fail at it. he didn’t fucking try.
You’re right. He didn’t try to do something purely performative that was almost certain to fail in a big waste of time and taxpayer money.
Because that would have been pretty fucking stupid.