AOC urges Biden to pack supreme court, says GOP doesn’t think Democrats have the ‘stones to play hardball’
4 years, 2 months ago

AOC urges Biden to pack supreme court, says GOP doesn’t think Democrats have the ‘stones to play hardball’

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy New York lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has urged Joe Biden to expand the supreme court should he win November's election and the Democrats take control of the Senate while holding onto the House. "Republicans do this because they don’t believe Dems have the stones to play hardball like they do," said congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, just minutes after judge Amy Coney Barrett was installed on America's highest court. Ever since Ms Barrett was chosen by the president last month to replace the late justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Democrats have been mulling over how to redress the ideological imbalance her appointment would present. “The last thing we need to do is turn the supreme court into just a political football, whoever has the most votes gets whatever they want,” said Mr Biden.

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Supreme Court Justice issues stern words on Biden's plans for huge overhaul
5 months ago

Supreme Court Justice issues stern words on Biden's plans for huge overhaul

Daily Mail  

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sent a stern warning toward Joe Biden after the president recently laid out extreme reforms to the nation's highest court. Last week, Biden called for sweeping reforms to the Supreme Court, including term limits, a binding code of conduct for its nine justices and a constitutional amendment that would limit presidential immunity. Supreme Court Justice …

With Supreme Court reform ideas, Biden is playing the long game
5 months, 1 week ago

With Supreme Court reform ideas, Biden is playing the long game

LA Times  

The first and easiest question to answer with respect to the package of Supreme Court reform measures that President Biden announced Monday is whether there is any hope of their passage or enactment by the current Congress. With Congress hopelessly polarized and the Supreme Court hopelessly politicized, there is no chance of action on Biden’s proposals in the coming months, …

Biden set to propose major Supreme Court overhaul including term limits and code of ethics
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Biden set to propose major Supreme Court overhaul including term limits and code of ethics

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy President Joe Biden is set to propose a major overhaul …

Unhappy with the Supreme Court? Your vote for president could make it worse
10 months ago

Unhappy with the Supreme Court? Your vote for president could make it worse

LA Times  

A reelected Biden likely wouldn’t be able to alter the ideological imbalance on the Supreme Court, but he could prevent it from getting worse. Foot-dragging — by the Supreme Court, where three Trump appointees sit, and at the Florida district court where a Trump-appointed judge presides — has all but assured that voters won’t get criminal verdicts before election day …

Trump is now 'MORE likely to beat Biden' after Colorado ruling: Top pollster says controversial state Supreme Court decision will lead to a huge surge
1 year ago

Trump is now 'MORE likely to beat Biden' after Colorado ruling: Top pollster says controversial state Supreme Court decision will lead to a huge surge

Daily Mail  

A bombshell ruling by Colorado to remove Donald Trump from the state's primary election ballot will be 'rocket fuel' for his chances of winning the White House in a 2024 rematch against Joe Biden, pollsters and pundits predict. The former president's son Eric Trump also claimed the Colorado Supreme Court's decision will increase his father's frontrunner status in the Republican …

Stymied by the Supreme Court, Biden wants voters to have the final say on his agenda
1 year, 6 months ago

Stymied by the Supreme Court, Biden wants voters to have the final say on his agenda

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — After major blows to his agenda by the Supreme Court, President Joe Biden is intent on making sure voters will have the final say. When the court’s conservative majority effectively killed his plan to cancel or reduce federal student loan debts for millions of people, Biden said, “Republicans snatched away the hope that they were given.” When the …

Stymied by the Supreme Court, Biden wants voters to have the final say on his agenda
1 year, 6 months ago

Stymied by the Supreme Court, Biden wants voters to have the final say on his agenda

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy After major blows to his agenda by the Supreme Court, …

Clyburn, architect of Biden’s court pledge, pushes his pick
2 years, 11 months ago

Clyburn, architect of Biden’s court pledge, pushes his pick

LA Times  

House Majority Whip James Clyburn, alongside other members of the Congressional Black Caucus, speaks in front of the Senate chamber about his support of voting rights legislation at the Capitol in Washington. At Joe Biden’s lowest moment in the 2020 presidential campaign, South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn came to him with a suggestion: He should pledge to put a Black …

White House establishes commission to study the Supreme Court – but it won’t make final recommendations for reform
3 years, 9 months ago

White House establishes commission to study the Supreme Court – but it won’t make final recommendations for reform

CNN  

CNN — A 36-member commission the White House established to study the US Supreme Court will not make final recommendations for reform, according to details released Friday, a possible letdown for liberals hoping for President Joe Biden to push for more justices on the bench. “The Commission’s purpose is to provide an analysis of the principal arguments in the contemporary …

Expert has a brilliant strategy for Democrats to protect their agenda from the Supreme Court
3 years, 11 months ago

Expert has a brilliant strategy for Democrats to protect their agenda from the Supreme Court

Raw Story  

Although Democrats now control the White House and both houses of Congress, there is one branch of the federal government where their ideas presently have very little influence: the U.S. Supreme Court. Instead of thinking about court packing, Poddar suggests, Democrats should consider "another way to stop the Court from totally derailing progressive economic reform that Democrats can use right …

Joe Biden’s Democrats Are On The Verge Of A Trifecta. What’s Next?
4 years ago

Joe Biden’s Democrats Are On The Verge Of A Trifecta. What’s Next?

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING President-elect Joe Biden’s Democratic Party is on the verge of seizing complete control of the federal government by the skin of its teeth, empowering the party to make progress on key issues but likely hindering its grandest ambitions. Unified control of Congress means Democrats will have at least three chances to pass significant pieces of legislation, provided …

The most democratic thing Joe Biden could do is ‘pack the courts'
4 years, 2 months ago

The most democratic thing Joe Biden could do is ‘pack the courts'

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Senate Majority …

Biden, Harris dodge questions about Supreme Court expansion
4 years, 3 months ago

Biden, Harris dodge questions about Supreme Court expansion

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — There are few topics that Joe Biden isn’t willing to opine on — except the Supreme Court. She would cement a 6-3 conservative majority on the court, the balance already tilted by Republicans’ holding open a vacancy in the 2016 election year by refusing to consider President Barack Obama’s nominee. “And when you refuse to engage, you make …

Supreme Court Vacancy Likely to Inflame US Presidential Debate
4 years, 3 months ago

Supreme Court Vacancy Likely to Inflame US Presidential Debate

News 18  

President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, were already set to fight when they share a stage Tuesday in Cleveland, but the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg means things may get tenser even faster. Barnett played Mike Pence in mock debates with Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine in 2016, while helping prepare Hillary Clinton …

Joe Biden: Vacancy about health law, not court expansion
4 years, 3 months ago

Joe Biden: Vacancy about health law, not court expansion

Associated Press  

— Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden wants voters to see Republicans’ push for a speedy Supreme Court confirmation as an end-run of Congress and the 2010 health care law. Biden called that scenario a distraction from the practical effects that Trump’s nominee, conservative federal judge Amy Coney Barrett, could have if she succeeds the late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. …

Analysis: How Trump’s Supreme Court pick is politically risky
4 years, 3 months ago

Analysis: How Trump’s Supreme Court pick is politically risky

Al Jazeera  

Washington, DC – US President Donald Trump’s nomination Saturday of a new Supreme Court justice and his comments about voting integrity have already significantly altered the political discussion during the final weeks of the presidential campaign. Abortion Fulfilling a promise to his conservative Republican base, Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, federal judge Amy Coney Barrett, is expected to be anti-abortion rights, …

Supreme Court announcement updates: Donald Trump names Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg
4 years, 3 months ago

Supreme Court announcement updates: Donald Trump names Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg

ABC  

IF Biden wins the election, can the Democrats increase the number of judges on the court to 11? It's called packing the court, and it's one scenario that some Democratic politicians and activists are already talking about, given there is very little they can do to stop this nomination. Two notable people who have publicly said they're against this idea …

Harsh new light on Trump taxes as Biden decries GOP ‘abuse of power’ on court pick
4 years, 3 months ago

Harsh new light on Trump taxes as Biden decries GOP ‘abuse of power’ on court pick

LA Times  

As President Trump angrily brushed aside a scorching news report Sunday on his tangled finances, Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden declared that if Trump’s allies push through an election-season confirmation of conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, American voters “are not going to stand for this abuse of power.” “I think it’s going to go quickly, actually,” …

Progressives pledge to keep pushing Biden to expand court
4 years, 3 months ago

Progressives pledge to keep pushing Biden to expand court

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Since Joe Biden ran away with the Democratic presidential nomination in March, leading progressives have accepted him — sometimes grudgingly — as their party’s leader. “The majority of Berniecrats will most likely vote for Vice President Joe Biden,” said Nina Turner, a former Ohio state senator and top adviser to progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 and 2020 presidential …

Biden can still win on the Supreme Court — with Stacey Abrams as his nominee
4 years, 3 months ago

Biden can still win on the Supreme Court — with Stacey Abrams as his nominee

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Most people know the stakes: Ginsburg’s …

Political money flows as both parties gear up for Supreme Court fight
4 years, 3 months ago

Political money flows as both parties gear up for Supreme Court fight

CNN  

CNN — The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg set off a wave of political fundraising on Saturday, leading both Democrats and Republicans to ready tens of millions in spending ahead of the fight to replace the late Supreme Court justice. Few political issues move people into their political corners more than a Supreme Court fight and less than 24 …

As the nation mourns an icon, Democrats and Republicans fight over Supreme Court vacancy
4 years, 3 months ago

As the nation mourns an icon, Democrats and Republicans fight over Supreme Court vacancy

CNN  

CNN — Mourners of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gathered quietly at the Supreme Court Saturday, laying rows of flowers and writing chalk messages to honor the gender equality icon. Trump said Saturday he will have a nominee “very soon” to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court and thinks he’ll make his choice next week, adding that …

Convention silence from Democrats with high court at stake
4 years, 4 months ago

Convention silence from Democrats with high court at stake

Associated Press  

The future of the Supreme Court is on the line, though it would be hard to tell from the Democratic National Convention that just concluded. By contrast, President Donald Trump and other Republican candidates rarely miss a chance to talk up Trump’s more than 200 federal court appointments, including Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, with the prospect …

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