Biden needs to come up with a better option regarding stacking the courts

[helpisontheway]

The stupid media will not let it go. Even Reverend Al was asking Simone Sanders about it today. We are giving the media and the stupid ass Republicans a talking point.

[SoonerPride]

1. "We'll see what happens."

That’s all he needs to say.

If the media says that’s not an answer, Joe can say “ go tell that to the president.”

[Rice4VP]

5. Exactly. The media is why we have a mass

murderer in the WH.

[Rice4VP]

2. No answer will ever be good enough.

They should come say “you people asking about Hillary’s emails and ignoring Trump’s crap is how we got in this mess”

No one who is voting for Biden cares about this question.

[Beachnutt]

3. unstack them by prosecuting the unqualified judges for

perjury during confirmation hearings. start wih kavanaugh.

[Demsrule86]

7. That won't happen.

[dware]

10. Not going to happen.

[JI7]

4. Actually, the media needs to be called out on their BS .

[Demsrule86]

6. Who cares? Biden says he will see where we are after the election and says that no

justice should be approved before the new president is sworn in...mentions Merrick Garland's names and accuses the GOP of stacking the court in order to do away with the ACA and Roe.

[LakeArenal]

28. Exactly. Case closed.

Personally I don’t think it would help dump any if Joe responded, “You betcha!
Just like you have to the lower courts.”

[Hortensis]

32. Right. Those media are serving the right wing,

now as in 2016.

Right now the publicans are packing the carts with right wing extremistS serving them.

Biden is not letting dishonest, wealth-serving media drive his decisions, a losing response. And by the way, this would be Congress’s decisions, not the president’s.

[agingdem]

8. Biden isn't the president...yet...

at this point we've got to win the election...deal with covid and get people working again, rescue the economy, rejoin the global community...and then deal with the courts

[backscatter712]

9. Short term strategy, do not answer the mainscream media's questions.

Is Biden gonna pack SCOTUS or not? Biden should keep it a mystery - keeps that gun pointed at Moscow Mitch.

Aside from that, what do you mean by "better option"? The tactic is simple. Congress passes a bill, and Biden signs it, increasing the number of justices from 9 to 13, then appoint 4 liberals to make a progressive majority. Easy-peasy.

Don't make excuses for it, don't apologize, don't even bother watching the polls about it, just fucking do it. Let the fascists scream. Their pain is my joy.

Democrats must learn to be more ruthless.

[BamaRefugee]

12. the people asking that question are NOT VOTING FOR BIDEN no matter what the answer is!

[dweller]

17. this !

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[KatyMan]

27. Hear hear!

About time we started taking some pages from their playbook.

[LakeArenal]

29. People asking repeatedly are baiting Joe.

Joe knows better than to take it.

[former9thward]

30. That was exactly what FDR said in 1937 when he tried it.

The blowback was so great he lost his domestic agenda for the rest of his presidency.

[Shermann]

11. There will always be a Republican talking point.

Sean Hannity makes like $43 million a year. He's not going to show up for work at Fox and be like "well, Biden kept his nose pretty clean. No talking points today. I got nuthin!".

They are getting skittish about their last hurrah being nullified and kicking up as much dust as possible. I'm already masked up so the dust doesn't bother me.

[BamaRefugee]

13. Biden simply needs to say "we'll let you know in about 2 weeks" ad nauseaum

[heckles65]

14. How about this?

"The Supreme Court was meant to be a discussion group with different views of of the law, not a nine person legislature. If all viewpoints are not represented, it will be my duty to see that they are."

[empedocles]

15. Face it, the 'cons with 'stacking', are winning the label game again,

- just like 'defund' problem.

The Election looming, is no time for liberal, finessing, fine pointing, parsing, righteousness, etc.

Dems need a clear, defendable message

[Shermann]

18. The Republicans stacked it

We're unstacking it.

Unstacking for the win!!

[Boogiemack]

16. It should be called "expanding the court" to match the complicated and huge workload.

The Constitution must also be looked at with an eye to updating to match the intent to the needs of today's Democracy or Republic, whatever you prefer to call it. The founding fathers never contemplated and Internet or which "militias" or automatic assault weapons in the hands of ordinary citizen. They also never imagined that women and black would refuse to be subjugated to an unjust, unfair, and patriarchal society either.

Not just the SCOTUS needs to be expanded but the lower appellate courts also.

AND CONGRESS NEEDS TO PASS LEGISLATION TO CODIFY VOTING RIGHTS FOR ALL NATIONAL ELECTIONS

[former9thward]

31. They don't have a "huge workload"

They take about 50 cases a year.

[The Wizard]

19. Impeach unqualified Justices and Judges.

[Tarc]

20. "Concern" noted.

[agingdem]

22. I'm as "concerned" as you are...

Joe doesn't need to respond to this ...most people have no clue what court-packing is and they don't care...they do care about eradicating covid, jobs, reviving the economy, and getting their kids back in school safely...if court-packing is the GOP's last best bogeyman ..happy to disappoint them

[andym]

21. Just needs to say he is looking to reform the courts and take the politics out.

No more needed.

[TheProle]

23. Simple statement:

All legal remedies remain on the table until this chapter in our history is closed.

[radius777]

24. Agree, this is framing issue. The GOP are the ones packing

the court, to the point of ramming through a RW justice weeks before an election - yet somehow Dems/Biden are being put on the spot on this.

Biden should simply answer that it is the Repubs who have packed the courts and as a result we may need court reform in the future, but it's a hypothetical at this point and he would look into it if elected. He should also reiterate that he would always follow the Constitution (which says nothing about the size of the courts).

[grobertj]

25. He needs to say....

I'm not the guy who's stacking the court. That guy is Donald Trump with the help of Moscow Mitch. Never in the history of the Republic has a Supreme Court justice been approved only a few days from he election.

[Greybnk48]

26. Are you talking about unpacking the courts that have been

Stacked/packed with incompetents by Moscow Mitch and the Trump cult?

We need to address this full on. It’s important that our courts are not full of crazy ideology and zealots. We need to seat a lot more people of color asap.

[Hortensis]

33. This seems influenced by RW-serving media.

The supreme court and lower courts are being packed right now by the current Republican Congress, with Trump signing off.

The 118th Congress will decide whether to allow right wing stacked courts to stand, a potentially huge problem that promises to betray the people practically and ideologically, and work with that or to take Another action to change it.

One of the few things that Trump has read off the Teleprompter that are true is that elections have consequences. But that doesn’t mean we’re gonna roll over for them.

[leftofthestorm]

34. How about

"unstacking the court"

[Retrograde]

35. Call it "rightsizing"

a favorite term in corporations when they want to get rid of a large percentage of their employees. How could the GOP possibly object to rightsizing the courts?

[UCmeNdc]

36. Just Answer By Saying:

Mitch McConnell changed the rules and packed the supreme court, after refusing to hold hearings for Judge Merrick Garland during the Obama Administration and has been packing the courts ever since. Mitch McConnell and the GOP has been packing the court for years now.