President Joe Biden remains unmoved on the issue of court expansion, the White House said, despite his criticism of the Supreme Court rulings handed down this week on gun rights and abortion. "That is something that the president does not agree with," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One on Saturday when asked about such a reform. "That is not something that he wants to do." Democrats and activists are floating the idea after the high court expanded gun rights and did away with 50 years of precedent to overturn Roe v. Wade. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts and others expressly called for expanding the court in the wake of the decision on abortion access. New York City Mayor Eric Adams said court expansion is "critical." "We need to balance out this court before they do more harm than what they've done thus far," Adams said at a press conference on Friday, where he said he wouldn't have become the city's leader if his former partner didn't get an abortion when they were in their teens. Biden has never expressed great interest in expanding the high court, even when many of his opponents in the 2020 Democratic primary for president were supportive of the reform.
Yes.The Democrat nominee won the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections.A 6-3 Republican court does not represent the people.
Represents the states though in a republic perhaps? It's not really supposed to be about Republicans and Democrats. Hell, right now there are only 3 Conservatives on TSCOTUS. What's your beef?
the popular vote dont me shite. if that mattered then trump would have spent 95% of his time campaigning in california and would have won the popular vote.
A 6-3 Republican court does not represent the people when the people voted for a democrat president in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections
If popular vote was needed to win....don't you think the parties would change their strategies The Republicans would be in the cities pushing school choice, more police, lower taxes for business in poor areas,
We're live in a republic though and it's the states that get represented in a republic (Senate and President). The House is where The People have a voice. As an aside, we should go back to legislatures appointing the Senators.