In a sit-down conversation with ProPublica, Biden discusses Kevin McCarthy’s “terrible bargain,” the fear of change that drives threats to democracy and the Supreme Court’s need for an ethics policy.

In a sit-down conversation with ProPublica, Biden discusses Kevin McCarthy’s “terrible bargain,” the fear of change that drives threats to democracy and the Supreme Court’s need for an ethics policy.

  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I know Biden’s not that guy, but the ethics problem at the Supreme Court should be viewed as a weakness to attack, not as the sole source of problems there.

    But he said, “I do think at the end of the day, this court, which has been one of the most extreme courts, I still think in the basic fundamentals of rule of law, that they would sustain the rule of law.”

    They didn’t sustain the rule of law when overturning 50 years of precedent or when it tore up the Voting Rights Act and defanged the EPA. They’re not going to get better if you just say they’re fundamentally doing good legal work.