OPINION - EDITORIAL
Why voters seriously need Joe Biden to answer the court-packing question
By Post Editorial Board
October 11, 2020 | 7:49pm
Voters “don’t deserve” to know if a President Joe Biden would pack the Supreme Court, the candidate told an interviewer on Saturday. Yes, they do, Joe: Americans deserve to know who they’re electing — and it shouldn’t be that hard to answer.
Biden, running mate Kamala Harris and their campaign insist the court-packing question is simply a “distraction” from the real issues — that is, the ones they want to talk about. “I’m not going to play his game,” is how Biden puts it.
Except it’s the “game” of the American people.
Court-packing means enlarging the high court from nine justices, as it’s been since 1869, to as many as 15 — and filling the new seats with left-leaning judges, flipping the court from a restrained, conservative slant to an activist, progressive one. It’s so radical that the Senate (and the public) rejected it even when President Franklin Roosevelt pushed it after the Supremes threw out much of his early New Deal as unconstitutional.
Moreover, doing it now would require killing the Senate’s filibuster rules entirely — opening the door to lots of other radical legislation, such as the Green New Deal.
Biden claims to be a moderate, so why can’t he rule out this madness? Why insist that he’ll only answer after Election Day?
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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2020/10/11/why-voters-need-joe-biden-to-answer-the-court-packing-question/
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Biden’s public persona is Mr. Get-Along Nice Guy — and he is, to other Democrats. But it’s no holds barred if any Republican gets in his way, especially when it comes to the decades-old progressive project of stacking the courts.
And the voters deserve to know it.
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