If we’re talking about strictly legal methods, Biden’s only option would be to pack the court to overrule Dobbs and reinstate Roe/Casey (or, ideally a stronger version). This would be done via a new federal law, and given that the dems only held 50 senate seats (which included people such and Manchin and Sinema), this was not something that could actually happen.
I think Biden should have tried this, used the bully pulpit of the presidency to argue for it, and campaigned against the senators that stood in the way of this. That’s what I would expect a president who actually cared about this issue to do. But it would not have stopped SCOTUS’s rollback of the law.
Biden could of course have instead triggered a constitutional crisis by directly threatening SCOTUS and forcing them to rule with a (potentially actual) gun to their head. But I’m not sure that’s what you had in mind?
You kinda making the point. He didnt even try. People here probably wouldnt be holding him so responsible for things if he had tried AT ALL to stop it even if he still failed.
Ye if the point is that he failed to try and that’s why you don’t like him, fair enough, I definitely agree there. I was reading the OP as blaming him for the result, rather than the failure to try, which is what I was responding to.
The failure to try makes him complicit. While not directly responsible, he allowed it to happen by doing exactly nothing. Like you said. It’s clear he didn’t actually care.
The Supreme Court ruled that the US President could break the law as long as it’s part of an official act during his presidency. That opened up his options quite a bit lol.
If you think that this Supreme Court actually rules on principles and that it would apply it equally (rather than in a brutally partisan manner) to Biden and Trump, then I have a bridge to sell you.
weird how the separation of powers only applies to bind the hands of democrat presidents when they might theoretically step in to protect human rights. what would the parliamentarian say!
You’re a joke. Everyone here took grade school civics and knows what “separation of powers” means. Just seems like you never bothered learning past that.
Christ you’re insufferable. “Pooor weeeeedle pwwesudennt can’t do annnnything!”
Fuck you, everyone knows that’s not true.
If we’re talking about strictly legal methods, Biden’s only option would be to pack the court to overrule Dobbs and reinstate Roe/Casey (or, ideally a stronger version). This would be done via a new federal law, and given that the dems only held 50 senate seats (which included people such and Manchin and Sinema), this was not something that could actually happen.
I think Biden should have tried this, used the bully pulpit of the presidency to argue for it, and campaigned against the senators that stood in the way of this. That’s what I would expect a president who actually cared about this issue to do. But it would not have stopped SCOTUS’s rollback of the law.
Biden could of course have instead triggered a constitutional crisis by directly threatening SCOTUS and forcing them to rule with a (potentially actual) gun to their head. But I’m not sure that’s what you had in mind?
biden could’ve drone striked the supreme court
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You kinda making the point. He didnt even try. People here probably wouldnt be holding him so responsible for things if he had tried AT ALL to stop it even if he still failed.
Ye if the point is that he failed to try and that’s why you don’t like him, fair enough, I definitely agree there. I was reading the OP as blaming him for the result, rather than the failure to try, which is what I was responding to.
The failure to try makes him complicit. While not directly responsible, he allowed it to happen by doing exactly nothing. Like you said. It’s clear he didn’t actually care.
The Supreme Court ruled that the US President could break the law as long as it’s part of an official act during his presidency. That opened up his options quite a bit lol.
If you think that this Supreme Court actually rules on principles and that it would apply it equally (rather than in a brutally partisan manner) to Biden and Trump, then I have a bridge to sell you.
they can’t rule if they’re dead after saying it was legal for the president to officially have them killed
Biden was literally told that nothing the president does is illegal by the supreme Court
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weird how the separation of powers only applies to bind the hands of democrat presidents when they might theoretically step in to protect human rights. what would the parliamentarian say!
im sure its a coincidence.
aww the mods got him.
I like how trump does something illegal every day with no consequence but you still want democrats to police themselves.
You’re a joke. Everyone here took grade school civics and knows what “separation of powers” means. Just seems like you never bothered learning past that.