President Eisenhower, in his final days in the White House, warned about the dangers of the “military-industrial complex” and “the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
Now, President Biden, in his final days in the Oval Office, is warning about a new threat to the nation’s future.
Biden has declared that the current Supreme Court is “not normal.”
He said it has become so twisted by politics and gift money that it is now undermining public trust in government and “the public’s confidence in court’s decisions…” That strong statement is a landmark moment for U.S. history.
It is in line with the warning from a president and former five-star general about the potentially corrupt power exerted by corporations selling weapons to the U.S. military. Eisenhower’s words remain relevant today, more than six decades after he left office.
This time the warning is coming from a president who served as the Senate Judiciary chairman and ranking member for 14 years and has been involved with, as he put it, “more Supreme Court nominations as senator, vice president and president than anyone living today."
Biden issued his warning after directly citing the Supreme Court ruling that a president is immune from prosecution for breaking the law as an attack on the basic........