On Saturday’s version of MSNBC’s The Weekend, hosts and visitors alike bemoaned Biden’s failure to hunt to pack the Supreme Courtroom.
Their feedback got here in response to oral arguments on the Courtroom this previous week on the case relating to Trump’s declare of presidential immunity. The panel expressed fears that the Courtroom would possibly broaden presidential immunity — if to not the extent of the suitable to assassinate political rivals, as Trump’s lawyer recommended may very well be an immune act.
Co-host Alicia Menendez teed up the packing notion, saying that in gentle of what occurred within the Courtroom final week, clearly one thing “structural”–packing or courtroom “reform” is important.
Visitor Ankush Khadori strongly agreed, calling Biden’s failure to push for packing a “historic political miscalculation.”
Co-anchor Symone Sanders Townsend, mentioning that she had labored for Biden, stated that he’s somebody who believes in “the rule of regulation.” However Sanders recommended that it’s “time to do issues in another way.” Once more Khadori agreed, flatly saying that in supporting the rule of regulation, Biden “is holding the unsuitable view. I hate to say that concerning the president. He is been unsuitable about this the entire time.”
Wait a second! Is not the Democrats’ huge beef in opposition to Trump that he refuses to simply accept the rule of regulation?
However discarding the rule of regulation is an efficient—certainly a mandatory—factor if it advantages Democrats?
Khadori claimed “this Courtroom, over the previous few years, is systematically working roughshod via our Structure. They, in simply the previous few years, they overturned Roe, they’ve invalidated affirmative motion in increased training, and so they mainly legalized identical intercourse discrimination. They threw out a part of the Biden administration’s signature home coverage effort on the coed mortgage forgiveness plan.”
However even authorized students on the left have acknowledged that Roe was poorly determined. Certainly, MSNBC’s personal authorized analyst Danny Cevallos opined, earlier than the Dobbs choice got here down, that Roe was “ripe” to be overturned as a result of “the suitable to privateness [upon which Roe was based] doesn’t exist both within the historical past or the textual content of the Structure, and that Roe “stands on a weak foundational foundation.”
As for affirmative motion, the phrase itself is a euphemism for reverse racial discrimination, a clear-cut violation of the Equal Safety clause and legislative prohibitions of racial discrimination. The “pupil mortgage forgiveness” Biden has granted by ignoring Congress and courtroom rulings in opposition to him. Who’s “working roughshod via our Structure” once more?
This is the transcript.
MSNBC
The Weekend
4/27/24
8:22 am EDTALICIA MENENDEZ: For those who had been a part of the 70% of Individuals who agree that the president mustn’t have absolute immunity, and then you definitely watched what transpired this week in courtroom, what’s left as recourse, proper? There’s courtroom reform, there’s stacking the Courtroom? What do you see as the trail ahead, as a result of clearly one thing extra structural is important.
ANKUSH KHADORI: Yeah, I agree with that. I believe, really, as we take into consideration this administration and its legacy, I believe it was — it should go down as having been a historic political miscalculation.
MENENDEZ: You are speaking concerning the Biden administration.
KHADORI: Biden administration, to not have made an actual, earnest effort at Supreme Courtroom reform. They put collectively a fee that produced a report that no one learn. It was not a severe effort to really pursue Supreme Courtroom reform, and now —
SYMONE SANDERS TOWNSEND: Why? As a result of the president, President Biden, I imply, I labored for him at the moment. I used to be part of the transition, and I labored within the White Home, and I do know for a truth, and Eugene, you’ve got been asking the questions too — I used to be there.
He himself doesn’t consider that that’s an avenue that needs to be explored. Joe Biden is any person that believes that, within the guidelines of regulation and legal guidelines the techniques. And one may argue, I [inaudiable], whew!–it’s time, it is time to do issues in another way.
KHADORI: Nicely look. I imply, yeah, I’m conscious he has that view. He’s holding the unsuitable view. I hate to say that concerning the president. He is been unsuitable about this the entire time.
And now, this Courtroom, over the previous few years, is systematically working roughshod via our Structure. They, in simply the previous few years, they overturned Roe, they’ve invalidated affirmative motion in increased training, and so they mainly legalized identical intercourse discrimination. They threw out a part of the Biden administration’s signature home coverage effort on the coed mortgage forgiveness plan.
And now they appear poised to situation some kind of ruling that may change the regulation which has already been in place for a pair hundred years. All of us assumed a president may very well be criminally charged after he, leaving workplace, to now come up
with some loopy new doctrine. And —MENENDEZ: To say nothing of the Idaho case that they’re listening to proper now, which is like all of their chickens coming dwelling to roost.
SANDERS TOWNSEND: Yeah, and its like yeah, we do not wish to save ladies.
KHADORI: All the instances coming again to them after Dobbs is a multitude. And this, this immunity ruling, if it comes out as most of us predict, it should go down in historical past as a sensible impact, as a sensible matter, as a sequel to Bush versus Gore.