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You’re actually SUPPORTING a candidate who refuses to disclose his position on an issue that could destroy the entire balance of powers system so brilliantly designed by our founding fathers?
And Biden’s canned response is so stupid: “If I answer, it would become an issue.” Well, DUH! A candidate’s position on issues IS an issue. And should be.
How’s this:
Q: Mr. Biden, are you planning to allow all illegal immigrants to get full welfare benefits, including subsidized housing, food stamps, Medicaid, and federal education grants?
A: I’m not going to tell you because then it would become an issue.
Oye.
He’s likely not answering it because his handlers have likely told him it is not a ‘need’. That he can refrain from answering that, and he will still win.
The SCOTUS is the last option people have to seek justice for injustices. To block tyrannical laws for instance. Packing the court to take away that effective check on the party in power leaves no peaceful and legal means of justice for those harmed by said party. When a government takes away all peaceful means of getting justice it tends to force people into a corner and leads to violence. Packing the court is the worst possible thing anyone could do right now in this tinderbox of a country.
I would like to know why former VP Biden doesn't state his position on court packing. It's so close to the election, and this is such a major issue. It will require a change to our constitution. I don't understand why he avoids answering for the voters. In the debate the other night, when asked, he went straight into a speech on "get out and vote" and it seemed there was a disconnect. He acted like he didn't hear the question. As a voter, this is pretty confusing. How can I vote without knowing a candidate's position on such a major issue?
Obviously, the reason he does not is that he is FOR COURT PACKING.
If he was against it, he would clearly state so. The fact he says nothing means he is supporting it.
If Biden stacked the court, it would be the seeds for secession for a good deal of the US. There is no provision in the Constitution for the NUMBER of Supreme judges; historically it has been between 5-10.
Even FDR, one of the most popular presidents in history at the time, was not able to pack the court. Now we have a candidate who is not even popular in his own party suggesting this. Thank God he wont be POTUS.
McConnell made procedural changes to eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations in 2017. Not legislation technically, but outside of existing parameters.
And reid made SEVERAL changes when he was the Senate Majority LEADER. Did you complain THEN?
If you don't like what is being done, only when a repub does it CHANGE, THE CONSTITUTION.
Article I Section 5, "Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings"
Trump of course tells it like it is. He pulls no punches even when those punches come back to hit square in the mouth. He is like this because he is like a bull in a China shop. He does this because HE IS NOT a politician. He is not even an attorney.
Trump could be the most transparent President ever and what is in the shadows the media will haul out, dissect and form their own narrative around it.
Biden on the other hand is a career politician, he graduated law school. He knows when to keep his mouth shut, or at least he did at one time and that made him slick, not as slick as the all time master of the smooth Obama but he has it.
Of course he is not going to answer a difficult question that once it doesn't poll well he would have to back track, apologize, flip flop, pivot or let the media decipher what he really meant and report it to the public.
Biden might be tight lipped on the issue of court packing but we all know that the Democrats crave power which is control and they will do anything for it.
" the media will haul out, dissect and form their own narrative around it."
And with most of the media leaning very left, we KNOW HOW they will "report" things.
It destroys the very system set up to AVOID total and complete control by a single party. The only thing that will save us from complete Leftist Rule, and the destruction of America, may turn out to be the SCOTUS. If the Party of AOC sweeps the executive and legislative branches, AND Biden packs the court, then the leftists can institute any unconstitutional laws they want and the activist leftist court will allow it.
Lord save us from leftists.
"It destroys the very system set up to AVOID total and complete control by a single party."
But, it has been going on for a LONG time.
FDR had EVERY SINGLE SUPREME COURT JUDGE be one HE nominated. And not a tear of "concern" from the dems. They prove over and over what hypocrites they are!
The balance of power has already been perverted by Trump. The Trump Administrations refusal to provide witness testimony, documents and so forth has made Congressional oversight almost nil.
But when the democrats use these methods, the GOP will whine.
"The balance of power has already been perverted by pelosi when she told shiff and nader to NOT allow a single witness the repubs wanted for trh hearings for the trump impeachment fiasco hearings, etc.
"But when the democrats use these methods, the GOP will whine." reid STARTED this mess and when he did what he did and NO whinnying from the left but, when the tails were turned they whined like little girls.
If they do. I eventually see us having a SCOTUS with 30479 judges.
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