Memento Mori wrote:captain red dog wrote:I saw a clip of Elizabeth Warren at the protest in DC yesterday. 100% agree with what she said. Reps have been planning this for decades, organising and arranging their time to strike.
Dems really need to get on top of this and Biden's hand should be forced here to pack the supreme court. It's absolutely outrageous that the US could be plunged back 50 years in terms of civil rights. Those stats that Moggy shared, I had no idea that abortion rates in the US were comparable to here, or that they have generally halved since the 1980s. That's an incredible stat that they need to be pushing left right and centre. The current federal position has undeniably saved lives. If they roll this back, it won't save life at all.
Please explain to me how Biden can pack the supreme court.
I've no idea. It was kind of his suggestion as he talked about the option (in vague political terms) during the election cycle. I presume there is some mechanism for him to do it. Wasn't the idea that he could add judges to the supreme court?
I'm not suggesting this is Biden's fault at all Reps have been scheming for decades to do this. The problem has landed during his term though so he needs to do something to protect people's basic rights. He needs to do literally everything within his power now.
Edit: I've read up on it, it seems congress would need to approve an expansion of the court which would be impossible as they'd need to somehow get rid of the filibuster first and I think Manchin and Sinema wouldn't change their minds even despite the damage the republican SCOTUS can now do.