You know what, Biden should go on TV and say "if the Court is going to be reviewing so many administrative regulations, it's going to need to be a whole lot larger. Going to need *puts finger in the air* idk, 5 or 6 justices"
But it seems Biden has surrounded himself with don't-rock-the-boat status-quo people who are so risk averse they wouldn't throw water on a fire in case they'd get electric shock 🙄
Biden’s biggest disappointment for me to date has been on the SCOTUS. He’s been a coward who refused to acknowledge what was plainly obviously happening.
If today wakes him up, that’s great, but I’m not optimistic
IIRC FDR curbed an activist court with just the threat of packing and also there's the fact that when the Supreme Court was revised to 9 Justices it was because at the time there was 9 Circuits. There's more now and a simple rationale to argue increasing it.
The road to fascism has historically been paved by milquetoast centrists who [sensible voice on] just can't believe they'll actually behave like that - it's just rhetoric/they'll come to their senses/the system will constrain them/...
All anyone needs to know about how little concern Joe Biden has about corrupt Republicans destroying the country and about how little effort he's put into defeating the rising American fascism is that Louis DeJoy still runs the post office.
Pathetic all the way around.
Nominee confirmations for the extra benches would cease in the senate.
POTUS would try to do recess administrative appointments & might get a bunch seated.
If Repugnakins control the senate whoever is the majority leader would never recess.
Courts are not setup to be regulatory agencies. Courts are not setup for the minutia of regulatory decisions.
I think the chevron ruling requires we expand the benches across the board. We can't wait six months for each level of the court to hear and decide a case.
Start packing.
Moving forward, cases will need to be heard and decided 12 months a year. We can't have these relatively short terms when it comes to regulatory actions. Like, even if they render /bad/ decisions, they need to be significantly quicker.
Yes this is what he SHOULD do, but there's very little indication that he even understands the scope of the problem, much less supports the kind of solutions that will be necessary.
I mean, in the end it's his election. Nobody on bluesky is going to post him into taking the gloves off and making a serious attempt to turn the tide of an election campaign he's currently screwing up
more than ever it feels really important that the party do everything it can to remain in power, rather than deferring to internal courtesy & decorum & going 'aw shucks, we'll get em next time' if they lose.
but i get that also isnt something we can change too.
He should straight up appoint another 9. Don't just ensure that the current illegitimate majority can be overruled, make sure that the court has a strong liberal bent for a whole generation. That's the game that the right-wingers are playing.
There is a genuinely good argument for that kind of restructuring. E.g. make SCOTUS a much larger pool of a dozen justices, with maybe 5 randomly selected justices sitting a panel for a given case. Gives them a whole lot more bandwidth and makes it much harder to game the courts.
Considering SCOTUS just said that they are the only ones who get to interpret nuance of regulation, he needs to appoint a bunch of new justices to help with the workload.
Someone on here described the debate prep as, "people will be thrown aback when they see that Trump has been weekend-at-Bernie'ing this whole time!" She got it right but flipped the candidates. So now Biden needs to be out there every day looking like Superman to change the perception.
And if he literally cannot do that, because this really is what he's like every day now, then well, I guess we should see that too and decide how to vote accordingly.
