President Biden said he won’t expand the Supreme Court because doing so would “politicize” the court in an unhealthy way. But it’s a political institution by its nature — and a disturbingly undemocratic one.
He's saying that because he can't expand the Surpreme Court. Like, with what Senate? You could talk about expanding the court if you have solidly more than 60 senators, but with 50 on a very good day? Sorry, that's just not happening.
How about people give him that Senate majority, or even better, build a time machine and prevent Trump so he doesn't get 3 judge. Biden isnt to blame for this court, but the American voters are. It's their responsibility to fix it, and if they don't even give Biden the tools to fix it, how is he supposed to do it then?
and centrist Washington Democrats sit around doing nothing
Democrats have only the slimmest possible Senate majority and lost the House majority. If voters don't give them the tools to unfuck what Republicans do, it's not the Democrats fault.
You voters gave Republicans 3 Surpreme court judges. It was your fault in 2016, it is your responsibility to fix it. You can't blame democrats for "doing nothing" when you don't let them do anything
All these “vote blue no matter who” boat shoe lickers
You're the bootlicker. Just help Republicans even more. It was people like you who gave Trump 3 Supreme Court justices and now you blame democrats for it instead of giving them the solid majorities to fix anything.
Ah yes, it was us the unmotivated and uncaring general public who gave Republicans every victory and are responsible for a branch of government we have absolutely no say in determining, nominating or appointing outside of our ability to “vote blue.”
Yes, that's exactly right. You gave Republicans power, now give democrats even more power to fix it.
Also, Hillary lost because she was an uninspired candidate who didn’t really try and arrogantly thought it was in the bag.
Translation: "I wanted another candidate waaaaaahhh"
That's a weird way of saying "Hillary Clinton was the candidate who won over the democratic voters in the primary". The democratic voters chose her, nobody else. If you didn't like her or her way of impressing voters ("inspiring candidate"), you maybe should have run as a better candidate and convinced the democratic voters yourself.
You might want to read up on this stuff called "elections" and how this "democracy" works. Spoiler: It's not what just you want.
I love Lemmy so much. I came across this post when it was created, looked at it and thought “eh, maybe some other time”.
Now I’m in the mood to give Star Trek a try, remembered this post, but couldn’t find it again in the community. But, alas, Lemmy has a proper search feature, and searching for “Guide to Star Trek” immediatly brought this up!
Biden Is Wrong. The Supreme Court Is Already “Politicized.” ( jacobin.com )
President Biden said he won’t expand the Supreme Court because doing so would “politicize” the court in an unhealthy way. But it’s a political institution by its nature — and a disturbingly undemocratic one.
The Star Trek 'Where Should I Start' guide
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