Posted on 10/10/2020 9:02:08 AM PDT by USA Conservative
So far we have only questions about who will fill the position in the Supreme Court if Biden wins and Trump fails to appoint his nominee!
Both Biden and Harris have answered the question—just not in a way that satisfies myopic campaign reporters.
Biden, to be fair, did himself no favors by playing coy. “You’ll know my opinion on court-packing when the election is over” is not a satisfactory answer. Still, it’s not exactly a dodge, either. It is, in fact, a neat summation of his campaign’s actual position. Republicans, right now, are racing to fill a Supreme Court vacancy that opened up after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, only 45 days before the presidential election.
Biden didn’t answer a question about the issue during the first presidential debate on September 29, nor did his running mate, Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris, when asked by Republican Vice President Mike Pence during Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate.
Today Biden went one step further he said that the American people don’t deserve to know his position on packing the Supreme Court.
Video below:
The Biden campaign’s position is that the next president should fill the current vacancy. “The American people are voting right now, and it should be their decision about who will serve on this most important body for a lifetime,” Harris said in Wednesday’s debate. When Biden says that you’ll know his opinion after the election, he means that his position is dependent on whether or not the Senate confirms Barrett before the election or, should Biden win, during the lame duck. If Barrett’s nomination is for some reason abandoned and Biden wins, it’s safe to assume that judicial reform, let alone outright court-packing, will not be at the top of his agenda.
But if Barrett is confirmed and the court has a 6–3 supermajority of conservatives, two of whom were nominated under at best highly sketchy circumstances, Biden is keeping his options open. “You’ll know my opinion on court-packing when the election is over” is both Biden’s actual position and a perfectly reasonable one to take, given the circumstances. What a President Biden would do is dependent on what happens between now and his inauguration. By keeping the question open, Biden is also answering it: Everything, including court-packing, is on the table if Barrett goes through.
Biden has previously opposed court-packing. In July 2019, during the Democratic presidential primaries, Biden said he opposed expanding the nation’s highest court, and he also opposed it during a primary debate in October 2019. In a 2005 speech discussing former President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s attempt to expand the court to 15 justices in 1937, Biden called the move a “power grab.”
“You’ll know my opinion on court-packing when the election is over,” Biden told reporters on Thursday. “It’s a great question, and I don’t blame you for asking. But you know, the moment I answer that question, the headline in every one of your papers will be on the answer to that question.”
Everything. He’ll slam it all on us without a care. Kamala will even be worse.
Wow- i hope The president runs with this in the next debate “You see folks, Sleepy Joe doesn’t even think you deserve to know his positions of controversial issues- He thinks you are beneath him, and don’t deserve insight into his elitist agendas- He actually has contempt for you. Is that the kind of leader that you want? Someone who despises you?”
Biden and other Dems will tell the public things on a “need to know” basis.
Trump is horrible-—they need to know.
Biden and Hunter took millions for shady deals-—clam up tight and do not ask.
Will he pack the Supreme Court in 2021? Answer unknown as the nature of the area past the 46.5 billion light year away edge of the known universe. Don’t bother asking.
Biden—to reporter—American people don’t deserve to know...
It might have been because that reporter happened to be a lying, dog-faced pony soldier.
Waiting for a reporter to ask him what he thinks the headline would be...
He’s obviously hiding a response or he would give one that would yield a positive...
The voting public is a fool to vote for these fools.....
Let your imagination run wild.
But they need to know everything about Amy Barrett or Kavanaugh to the point of framing them, exposing their children to the worst stories
And We let these people be in charge. It’s our fault as a country these demonic people are in charge.
“...two of whom were nominated under at best highly sketchy circumstances,”
Pure DemonRat arrogance.
And the media will be A-OK with this.
The Undeserving should be on a T-Shirt, like the Deplorables.
I think they mean Gorsuch and Amy Barrett.
Liberals say Gorsuch stole the seat which was supposed to be filled by Merrick Garland after Justice Scalia died.
And Chuck Schumer has declared replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be an illegitimate process.
So the liberal view is that Republicans are cheating with Supreme Court nominations.
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Shows us Biden’s (and nearly all Dem’s) opinion of the great unwashed class of voters.
Joe will claim that someone hacked his brain.
Gropin Joe’s opinion will be whatever kameltoe tells him it will be.
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