Biden commemorates the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act in Austin, Texas, by detailing his radical Supreme Court proposal.
Once again, President Joe Biden has embraced a predictable and tiresome ploy to gin up votes by vilifying the justices on our nation’s highest court.
The timing is no coincidence.
An election is fast approaching, so our lame duck president trotted out the same jaded and politically-driven bromide to "reform" the U.S. Supreme Court that we’ve heard so many times before.
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In his speech on Monday at the LBJ Presidential Library in Texas outlining his plan, Biden railed against the "extreme positions of the Supreme Court."
Except those positions have not been extreme at all.
As former U.S. Attorney General William Barr explained in a Fox News op-ed, "the actual numbers do not back up the hysterical claims of a ‘partisan Court.’" Nearly half of the rulings were unanimous in the most recent term. Only a small number —eleven— were decided along ideological lines.
President Biden’s Supreme Court proposals are little more than typical electoral pablum for Democrats but not remotely viable. It is an undemocratic ruse by an incumbent president who claims he wants to ‘save democracy.’
Naturally, Biden’s newly anointed replacement,Vice President Kamala Harris, is........