Packing The Court

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During the presidential debate, former Vice President Joe Biden was asked whether he supports plans to pack the court if he wins the White House and Democrats regain a majority in the Senate in November. He was also asked about ending the filibuster.

These are no longer fringe positions of the radical left but serious proposals being debated within the Democratic Party. After Justice Ginsburg died, Democrats and their allies in the media were threatening to do just this if PDJT nominated someone to fill Ginsburg’s position on the court.  Not only were questions about court packing and the filibuster appropriate, but voters deserve to know what the Democratic Party’s candidate for President thinks about them and whether he plans to support them once in office.

Wallace’s question (one of the few “tough” questions that Wallace asked Biden all night:

So my question to you is, you have refused in the past to talk about it, are you willing to tell the American tonight whether or not you will support either ending the filibuster or packing the court?

Biden immediately began squirming and refused to answer.  PDJT challenged Biden on this.  The back and forth went like this.

BIDEN: Whatever position I take on that, that’ll become the issue. The issue is the American people should speak. You should go out and vote. You’re voting now. Vote and let your Senators know strongly how you feel.

TRUMP: Are you going to pack the court?

BIDEN: Vote now.

TRUMP: Are you going to pack the court?

BIDEN: Make sure you, in fact, let people know, your Senators.

TRUMP: He doesn’t want to answer the question.

BIDEN: I’m not going to answer the question.

TRUMP: Why wouldn’t you answer that question? You want to put a lot of new Supreme Court Justices. Radical left.

BIDEN: Will you shut up, man?

TRUMP: Listen, who is on your list, Joe? Who’s on your list?

WALLACE: Gentlemen, I think we’ve ended this —

BIDEN: This is so un-Presidential.

TRUMP: He’s going to pack the court. He is not going to give a list.

Wallace may have asked a tough question (probably so he can show he was not biased) but he let Biden skate without answering the question.  In fact, Wallace rescued Biden as Biden appeared to be losing it with PDJT.  He did this by ending the segment.

Biden cannot actually take a position because he would then have to defend it.  If he comes out for packing the Court, he loses moderate Democrats who might actually vote for him.  If he comes out against packing, then he stands to lose Bernie Bros and others out on the far left.

Make no mistake.  It is all about power.  There is an elite ruling class that does not give a tinker’s damn about the American people and the greatest experiment in governance the world has ever seen.  As Andrea Widburg noted,

Packing the court ends the American experiment as we know it.  It means that the Supreme Court will be a political body that will exist solely to put its imprimatur on Democrat policies.

Putting activist judges on the court will end the Constitution.  Interpreting laws within the constitutional framework will be an exercise for law school debate societies and nowhere else.  Justices would make law as they have been doing for decades instead of having the legislators actually pass laws.  Widburg also noted,

“…the hard-left Democrat party views our American political system the same way Turkey president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan viewed democracy before becoming a dictator for life: “Democracy is like a train.  We shall get out when we arrive at the station we want.”  This time around, once the Democrats win, they will change the rules so they can never lose again.

This is what is on the ballot this November.  Do we want to have a country where liberty, freedom and individual accountability matter, or do we want to be subjects to a government that is no longer responsive to its people?  Where the elite pols have live in lavish luxury while the common people fall further and further behind?