The Supreme Court is poised to become a more prominent political foil for President Joe Biden and Democrats before next year's elections.
But Biden and his party, who have criticized Republicans for undercutting the country's democratic institutions, have to tread carefully to avoid being called hypocritical by the GOP.
"If every Democrat, including the president and everyone else at the White House, doesn't aggressively highlight the rightward tilt of the Supreme Court in the upcoming elections, we as a party might as well give up and go home," he said."The court is rapidly losing legitimacy because of their complete unwillingness to follow precedent — there is zero reason to give them the deference they have been given in the past.
Biden has been increasingly critical of the Supreme Court since last year's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, which overturned the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade, a development that arguably helped Democrats outperform expectations during last year's midterm elections. "The ill-founded and disappointing decisions from the Supreme Court are a stark reminder that it will take a sustained effort to rebalance our federal courts and restore the values that have made the United States a beacon for freedom, democracy, equality, and opportunity," he added."Senate Democrats will continue to approve fellow Americans for the federal courts who far better reflect the values, diversity, experiences, and perspectives of the American public.
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