Joe Biden worries that the “extreme” US supreme court, dominated by rightwing justices, cannot be relied upon to uphold the rule of law.

“I worry,” the president told ProPublica in interview published on Sunday. “Because I know that if the other team, the Maga Republicans, win, they don’t want to uphold the rule of law.”

“Maga” is shorthand for “Make America great again”, Donald Trump’s campaign slogan. Trump faces 91 criminal charges and assorted civil threats but nonetheless dominates Republican polling for the nomination to face Biden in a presidential rematch next year.

In four years in the White House, Trump nominated and saw installed three conservative justices, tilting the court 6-3 to the right. That court has delivered significant victories for conservatives, including the removal of the right to abortion and major rulings on gun control, affirmative action and other issues.

The new court term, which starts on Tuesday, could see further such rulings on matters including government environmental and financial regulation.

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    1. It’s not clear that’s constitutionally possible and guess who gets to decide whether or not it is.
    2. Even if it were that’s not up to the President.

    Civics education in this country is fucking pathetic.

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      Yeah that’s by design. Wouldn’t want people doing something crazy like paying attention and trying to do something about the institutional cruelty. 🤔

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      Civics education in this country is fucking pathetic.

      I agree with you but there’s no reason to believe that the people proposing blatantly unconstitutional courses of action are American. In fact there’s no good reason to believe they’re even arguing for this in good faith. There’s a lot of a bad actors on the internet getting paid by various nation states to foment problems.

      I tend to put commenters who won’t accept that their plan is outside the bounds of the law into that second category. They KNOW what they’re saying would cause serious problems if it was done but they keep repeating it. They act just like the Russian led MAGAts with the sole difference that they’re pretending to work for Team Blue.

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        Oh of course! Sure!

        I’m not American and I don’t know how your whole complicated political system works. So if I ask if something can be done a certain way and it’s not how it actually works in your system I simply MUST be a foreign bad actor trying to influence Americans to vote for Putin as international world overlord.

        /S

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          You’ve been instructed over and over and over in this very topic how our system works and you ignore to continue pushing a plan that would have devastating and immediate consequences.

          If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck odds are good that it’s a duck.

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            pushing a plan that would have devastating and immediate consequences.

            It’s some peak white moderation to think that there aren’t already devastating and immediate consequences to simply passively accepting fascism to preserve “order”. You’ll croak about civics education while people are losing their lives due to a corrupt and illegitimate court being giving cart blanche to rewrite law.

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      I’m Canadian… not everyone on the internet is American.

      I just thought the president had the power to sign an executive order or some shit like Trump did for a bunch of things.

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        You still have zero excuse. If you think the head of state of any liberal democracy can change the judicial system by fiat you don’t have the understanding nor mental horsepower to be reading about this instead of an introduction to government textbook.

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        That’s because it’s much easier to roadblock things than implement them.

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          The GOP got their perjurous Justices confirmed, their tax cuts passed, their book bans, and the end of Toe V Wade. Seems like they are implementing just fine.

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            The book bans are happening at state level, not federal. Other than that, it’s all been tearing down what’s existing

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            That’s not really implementing… You left out every bit of context.

            • They waited and said no, we won’t confirm Garland and then got the majority and pushed through a justice during an election.

            • They’re ignoring laws and passing their own book bans that their now regressive Supreme Court is cool with.

            • And the end of Roe v Wade was accomplished at least in part but that same saying no and waiting.