Reining in the rogue court is a crucial goal with wide support from Americans across the political spectrum
āBetter late than neverā is a useful maxim in all of life and in politics as well. On Monday,Ā Joe Biden caught the ābetter late than neverā bug when he unveiled a series of proposals toĀ reform the US supreme court.
Those proposals come more than two and a half years after the US presidentās presidential commission on the supreme court issued itsĀ recommendations, and more than 40 years after BidenĀ calledĀ former president Franklin Delano Rooseveltās plan to impose term limits on the court āboneheadedā.
In 2020, during his quest for the White House, Biden again distanced himself from people who were pushing for significant institutional reform at the court.
How times have changed. That was before the courtĀ overruled Roe v Wade, theĀ ethics scandalsĀ of justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas came to light, and before the court gave the president almostĀ blanket immunityĀ from criminal prosecution.
The Republicans might have politicized the Court, or the Court may have politicized itself when it decided to throw its last glimmer of judicial legitimacy out the window. Hard to say.
In either case, all Biden is doing here is trying to fix a problem that was not of his making.
Dems always have to play clean up from the damage the GOPers inflict. smh
Theyāre the same picture. The judges who politicized the court are Republicans.
abortion was popular among evangelicals until the republicans appropriated catholic theology to politicize AFTER Roe was ruled. Like it literally was the politicians, media and their donors that sent out the memos to create division and change religious beliefs just as they had worked to incorporate capitalism into christianity (yes prosperity gospel was started by the wealthy and donor dangled to churches, as well)