Excuse me if I'm wrong here, but I'm under the impression that you are having partisan issues with your Supreme Court.
I'm not saying that Biden's proposal is the solution you need, but it seems to me that justice is one of the few things that hold the whole system together. It's in your best interest to avoid the kind of imbalance that I believe is happening at the moment, especially if Republicans, who in most countries couldn't even be categorized as center-right, are now a cult to Trump... A frigging convicted felon.
Would you be willing to address that issue in any way?
let me address the above:
1) partisan issues - yes, but this is nothing new. The right would have said the same thing for 50+ years. This is their country too, like it or not.
2) justice continues to hold the whole system together. I'm not sure why you think that's changed.
3) I think you may be defining imbalance as "things that you don't like happen." That's not how I'd define imbalance.
I think that's what Biden is trying to do. Reduce the damage that ONE president can have a multi-generational effect on the supreme court and weigh law/policy on one side for longer than is reasonable
We live in a fairly old, and fairly successful constitutional democracy. Are we sure we want to change it simply because a SCOTUS judgement that was deeply unpopular with half of the US has been reversed, making the other half of the US unhappy? Or are we specifically worried about Trump? because that's a right now issue, and these changes to SCOTUS won't impact that issue (I don't think SCOTUS solutions will be fast enough), he'll be long dead (and either king, or nothing).
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Biden could have tried the nuclear option, adding more justices, but instead he wants to change the rules. I don't think he could have accomplished the former, and I'm pretty sure he'll fail at the latter too.
1. Oh then never mind liberal concerns towards the independency of Justice, I guess its all fine if the Supreme Court is partisan driven, coz thats the way you do things.
2. The thing is that seems from the distance that the US respect for what Justice stands in a society is on free-fall, but then again that might just be how it has always been there.
3. Oh I guess its just fine that a supreme court is acting in a partisan way... and that it would continue so for many years to come... like I´m sure that will have no lasting effects, that sounds very balanced for the US TBH.
I guess my standards for democracy are just so much higher that I really dont see a point arguing here.