POTUS/General Election Thread 2020 + Aftermath

[a completely inoffensive name]

'I support the will of the American people who overwhelmingly wish for the next justice to be picked by the winner of this election. If elected, I will follow the public's mandate and nominate justices to balance the court as directed by the people."

[Hooahguy]

nominate justices to balance the court

See this isn't something that Biden would say though because it obviously implies court packing.

Here is his seemingly most recent statement on the issue:

“I’m not a fan of court packing, but I don’t want to get off on that whole issue. I want to keep focused,” Biden told WKRC, a Cincinnati-area CBS/CW affiliate. “The president would like nothing better than to fight about whether or not I would in fact pack the court or not pack the court, et cetera. The focus is, why is he doing what he’s doing now?”

The former vice president also described Republicans’ push to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court before November's election as a form of court packing.


“Court packing's going on now. Never before, when an election has already begun and millions of votes already cast, has it ever been that a Supreme Court nominee was put forward,” Biden said. “And one of the reasons is the only shot the American people get to determine who will be on a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court or federal court is when they pick their senator or their president.”

Biden has previously called questions about his views on court packing a distraction, saying last week that “the moment I answer that question, the headline in every one of your papers will be on the answer to that question.”

This is the right answer, which I actually see as an indication he will approve a court-packing measure- seeing that the GOP is already doing it, it seems like he would pursue it to "balance things out." But its far more subtle than your statement. Ill expect something more in-depth after the election if he wins, but for now this is enough for me.

Again, its extremely obvious why Biden won't take a firm stance on this. The media and the Trump campaign are looking for red meat and Biden doesnt want to give anything to them, now that we are just 20 days away from the election.

[a completely inoffensive name]

This is the right answer, which I actually see as an indication he will approve a court-packing measure- seeing that the GOP is already doing it, it seems like he would pursue it to "balance things out." But its far more subtle than your statement. Ill expect something more in-depth after the election if he wins, but for now this is enough for me.

Again, its extremely obvious why Biden won't take a firm stance on this. The media and the Trump campaign are looking for red meat and Biden doesnt want to give anything to them, now that we are just 20 days away from the election.

It's a deflection and time will tell how long he can deflect until the media starts pumping the narrative that Biden is hiding behind his words.

[Hooahguy]

It's a deflection and time will tell how long he can deflect until the media starts pumping the narrative that Biden is hiding behind his words.

I mean they would do the same thing if he came out definitively either way. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

If today's journalists were around in the 70's there would be no Watergate and Nixon would have served out his second term.