As it stands, he is refusing to consider any sort of action or regulation against the SC in any way, shape, or form. He is neither checking nor balancing a blatant power grab by the Judicial Branch (as currently co-opted by the Republican Party and Nationalist Christians).

I agree that the column presents a rather extreme scenario, but holy fuck, it’d be great if Biden was willing to go even a bit in the direction of malicious compliance instead of doing literally fucking nothing.

And more broadly: his outright refusal to take any action whatsoever in the face of clear, present, and existential danger to not only his campaign, but the Democratic Party, the Constitution, democracy in the US in general, and anyone who’s not a white evangelical, is an inexcusable abrogation of duty to his oath to protect and defend the Constitution. It’s dereliction of duty, plain and simple. That is why I now think Biden shouldn’t be the nominee any longer: he demonstrably does not have the proper temperament to respond effectively to a situation that has existed and gotten worse for the entirety of his first term. He’s done NOTHING to halt the judicial overreaches and legislatural ratfucking. I don’t expect that to change. After all, despite how much ink has been spilled about how his comments were “taken out of context”, he told us so himself.