Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Biden and Harris announce they will support packing the Supreme Court

 We all know that people can say things without actually saying them.

For example a guy asks a girl out and she says sorry but she's washing her hair that night.

The girl didn't say it but the guy knows that she thinks he's a nice guy--she didn't say eww no way I'd ever be around you-- but that she has absolutely no interest in dating him.

The same applies to Joe and Kamala.  

By refusing to say whether or not they support packing the court they're saying that they do.

Here's why.

Court packing has been viewed as a particularly odious and anti-Constitutional concept since FDR first floated it.

Supposedly the Court interprets the Constitution as written so that the number of judges should be irrelevant.

Court packing only works if one packs the Court with judges who don't in fact follow what the law says but who are willing to make up laws, the laws that the people who appointed them can't get Congress to approve.

Most divided Court rulings aren't about two equally valid ways to interpret the Constitution but between honest judges who point to what the Constitution says and dishonest judges who say that the Constitution should say something different.

Take abortion. There is no right to privacy in the Constitution but if there were it would be trumped by the right to life of every human being in America.  But the judges who made abortion legal for any reason at any point in a pregnancy, overturning the laws of all 50 states in the process, decided that abortion should be legal so they made up a story about how the Constitution says something it doesn't.

Biden has said that he's not telling us where he stands on court packing because it would make him the center of controversy.  Which means he knows that most Americans wouldn't like his position.

After all if Biden was against packing the Court and said so he'd undercut a key Trump attack on himself, show that he does believe in the rule of law, and that he's not interested in making the Supreme Court a legislative organization.

The only possible downside would be that the radical leftists in his base would be upset.

Hence either Biden does support packing the Court or he's so afraid of his own base that he'd be likely to go along with packing the Court when they call for it.

Therefore it's pretty clear that Biden supports the idea of putting partisan political hacks on the Supreme Court who will always rule the way Democrats want and continue the practice of the Court imposing on we the people Democrat laws, like redefining sex as gender, which Democrats couldn't get passed by Congress.

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