President Joe Biden promised Black voters Wednesday that he would appoint progressives to the US Supreme Court if elected to a second term, suggesting he expects vacancies on the high court over the next four years.
“The next president, they’re going to be able to appoint a couple justices, and I’ll be damned — if in fact we’re able to change some of the justices when they retire and put in really progressive judges like we’ve always had, tell me that won’t change your life,” he said during a campaign rally in Philadelphia.
It was as explicit a warning as Biden could offer about the stakes of the upcoming election, and a clear reminder that some of the nine justices have entered their seventies.
Clarence Thomas is 75 and Samuel Alito is 74; both are conservative and appointed by Republican presidents. Sonia Sotomayor, a liberal who was nominated by President Barack Obama, turns 70 next month.
Actually progressive or “biden is the most progressive president in recent US history” progressive? I’ll take either over the alternative, but I’d love it if it was more than former than the latter.
Cmon, you know it’s the latter.
Still a lot better than anything Trump would come up with.
I’ll take anyone who isn’t a corporate careerist at this point. The people sitting on the supreme court shouldn’t be expecting to leverage it to make an exhorbitant amount of money.
Actually progressive or “biden is the most progressive president in recent US history” progressive?
He’s going to appoint Merrick Garland again.
“Just as soon as the court decides that the President is immune from prosecution, I expect there will be six vacancies soon after.” wink
Well, since it is legal for a President to order assassinations… why not open SCOTUS up to some new blood?
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I read this in the voice of the alien from omicron persei 8 on Futurama
Put some respect on LUR RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEI 8’s name
It’s actually Lrrrr and his lovely wife Ndnd
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It’s very likely the GOP will win control of the Senate, and if they do McConnell would sooner die than let Biden even consider nominating someone.
Still gonna vote for Biden though, because if Trump wins the Conservative justices will all retire at once and they’ll nominate 30-year-olds to fill in. I don’t want 60+ more years of a Conservative court majority!
McConnell has already said he would step down from Senate leadership, so some other guy would get the task of impeding everything Biden does.
However, things are looking better than they used to that Democrats will at least be able to hold the Senate to a 50/50 split, and possibly also pick off Ted Cruz in Texas. Democrats who are not fond of Biden don’t seem to be taking it out on their Senate candidates. There are several states where Biden is trailing, yet the incumbant Democratic Senator still has a good lead.
McConnell has already said
Let me stop you right there, because this man has already shown his word doesn’t mean anything. It shifts with the political winds.
Democrats have to win in a lot of red states this time around. I’d be over the moon if that happened, but maybe we should have a backup plan in case Democrats lose in Ohio, Montana and Texas.
Democrats already have 51 seats (counting the independants). WV is a lost cause, but if they keep the seats they currently hold (including Arizona), that’s how they get to the tie at 50.
You point out Ohio and Montana where holding that seat will be hard, but signs are pointing up.
Biden not causing many stiffies will have a negative impact on the number of those actually going to the polls though
so now on top of not being that other he is saying he will be a better president in the next four years because he thinks people might die
he is really grasping at straws at this point
executive order abortion rights in, legalize cannabis, and raise the minimum wage a lot
that alone would guarantee him this next election no debates or speeches or anything else would be needed
Is executive order enough to raise the minimum wage?
I guess he could order all federal agencies will only work with companies that pay some new minimum.
Feels like abortion would get destroyed by the 5th circuit and the supreme court just like many of the other things they’ve tried to do
While it’s POSSIBLE there will be vacancies in the next presidential term, the two oldest, Thomas and Alito, will still be younger in 2028 than Biden is now.
So I wouldn’t exactly hold my breath on Biden getting the picks.
Whoever serves from '28 to '32 will likely get to replace both Thomas and Alito, then the next two oldest are Roberts and Sotomayor.
According to Trump’s lawyers, Biden could use Seal Team Six to … create some vacancies.
Clearly never going to happen, but it’s too silly of an actual legal argument to ignore.
Doubt any would retire willingly. It’s a sad state of affairs that judges will go until death before allowing the other side replace them.
Nah, triple the size and pack it full. It’s our only hope.
Playing devil’s advocate but couldn’t that backfire spectacularly? The
born again nazisRepublicans play the long game and we could see even larger scrotus stacked withnazisRepublicans.They’ll do that as soon as it suits them anyway.
Or he expects there to be no vacancies, giving him the option to say whatever he thinks might get him votes without ever having to follow through on his promises.
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He won’t. They’ll be centrist/liberals at best
It suggests that Republican SCOTUS judges might want to retire but they aren’t under any obligation to do so in the next 4 years. Unless he’s ready to pull the trigger on court reforms or he’s got an assassin lined up this is just another empty promise.
Not sure whether to poke at the fact that there probably won’t be any vacancies or that he would actually choose a progressive considering people are resigning from his administration every week over Gaza.
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Term limits please!
Actually vacancies are not required. There is no set limit.
On average since Washington, each Presidential term has had 2.1 SCOTUS appointments. It’s not a bad expectation, statistically speaking. But it’s just an average, since Biden only has one so far, and Trump got three.
averages, am I right (wheres my FUCKING .1?)
