So I heard Biden mention that he's big into reforming the Supreme Court. My reaction to that is "If the next words out of your mouth aren't 'I'm appointing five new justices and I expect the legislation enabling it and their appointments to be confirmed by congress before the election' then I have no idea why the fuck you're still talking."
@BalooUriza presidents don't have authority to make such moves unilaterally.
@volkris Thanks, but I believe you stopped reading what you're replying to approximately halfway through, and also ignoring previous court expansions and contractions in history.
@BalooUriza oh I read it.
It just sounds like you're not up to speed on the process for putting justices on the Supreme Court.
That's not how it works, and presidents don't have the authority to ignore the legal procedure surrounding it.
@volkris OK, then you're clearly not comprehending it. If you can't be bothered to do the barest minimum before responding, please sod off.
@BalooUriza The process of appointing a Supreme Court Justice does not involve a president appointing a person and then demanding legislation authorizing it.
That's just not how the US process works.
I read what you wrote, and it just sounds like you don't know how US Supreme Court justices are appointed. I don't know who may have told you something wrong, but that's not the procedure.
Presidents do not have the authority that you seem to think they do, and it's for very important reasons that they don't have such authority.
We intentionally limit the authority of presidents because we don't want any single person to have that amount of power.
