Joe Biden worries that the “extreme” US supreme court, dominated by rightwing justices, cannot be relied upon to uphold the rule of law.
“I worry,” the president told ProPublica in interview published on Sunday. “Because I know that if the other team, the Maga Republicans, win, they don’t want to uphold the rule of law.”
“Maga” is shorthand for “Make America great again”, Donald Trump’s campaign slogan. Trump faces 91 criminal charges and assorted civil threats but nonetheless dominates Republican polling for the nomination to face Biden in a presidential rematch next year.
In four years in the White House, Trump nominated and saw installed three conservative justices, tilting the court 6-3 to the right. That court has delivered significant victories for conservatives, including the removal of the right to abortion and major rulings on gun control, affirmative action and other issues.
The new court term, which starts on Tuesday, could see further such rulings on matters including government environmental and financial regulation.
I think each state should have 1 justice. Enough of this supreme 9 crap.
No way.
That’s just creating a judicial version of the Senate.
I don’t want a drastic overall of the SC, I just want to see more accountability.
Ok, agreed but can we do term limits next? This giving it to the whoever is the president when someone drops is bullshit. Especially now that the bar has been lowered so far for the office.
Ok cool, so that way 500 thousand people will have the same say over our constitution as 40 million people, just because they live in the dirt state.
What are these numbers? There’s 330 million in US, are these the number of people that vote? Genuine question
Those are the populations of Wyoming and California.
They’re referring to different state populations in response to the above person stating that we should have one justice per state.
The States already have their own courts. We don’t need a federal government at all, really, except a few very limited purposes. The purposes are even already spelled out for us in the US Constitution.
Hahahahah.
Oh, wait, you’re serious. Let me laugh even harder.
HAHAHAHAH!
Obviously states and ctitizens in general can not agree on the proper interpretation of the Constitution, therefore SCOTUS exists. So long as there is a SCOTUS there needs to be equal representation. 9 people holding life-long seats are far too few for far too long. Special interest groups can take control too easily as has happened.
Yeahhh… we fought a whole ass war over this one you’re wrong.
Yeah? How’s that working out for you?
Better than having slavery and a constitutionalized apartheid state, tf you mean?