Reining in the rogue court is a crucial goal with wide support from Americans across the political spectrum
“Better late than never” is a useful maxim in all of life and in politics as well. On Monday, Joe Biden caught the “better late than never” bug when he unveiled a series of proposals to reform the US supreme court.
Those proposals come more than two and a half years after the US president’s presidential commission on the supreme court issued its recommendations, and more than 40 years after Biden called former president Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s plan to impose term limits on the court “boneheaded”.
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 court overruled Roe v Wade, the ethics scandals of justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas came to light, and before the court gave the president almost blanket immunity 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.
They’re 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)