Reining in the rogue court is a crucial goal with wide support from Americans across the political spectrum

ā€œBetter late than neverā€ is a useful maxim in all of life and in politics as well. On Monday,Ā Joe Biden caught the ā€œbetter 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 presidentā€™s presidential commission on the supreme court issued itsĀ recommendations, and more than 40 years after BidenĀ calledĀ former president Franklin Delano Rooseveltā€™s plan to impose term limits on the court ā€œboneheadedā€.

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.

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    2 months ago

    I meanā€¦youā€™re just elaborating on what I just said. Canā€™t tell if youā€™re being sarcastic or not, but šŸ¤·

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      2 months ago

      Sometimes replies are concurrences or addendums instead of rebuttals.

      Itā€™s rare enough that itā€™s understandable that one assume the worst by default, though.

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          Thatā€™s true, but itā€™s possible that it was directed at the article writer rather than the parent commenter. (If that were the case then it shouldā€™ve been made more clear, but I know itā€™s possible thatā€™s what he meant even without clarification because Iā€™ve made the same mistake before.)