Biden's the One

If all you're here to do is insult the other members on this board Rick, then you can restrict your comments to The Ring. The Courthouse is for discussing the issues, not each other

I believe I've already stated that I don't believe they should change the number of SC seats, and I'm not shocked that Biden eluded answering the question directly when asked during the debate, he answered in a way that his opponents didn't like and can't rebut. On the subject of "court-packing," it appears that Republicans are even more culpable.

This "one-up-manship" and partisanship of the judiciary needs to stop.

Court Packing? It’s Already Happening at the State Level
In recent years, Republican-led legislatures have been adding state supreme court seats and working to change nominating rules, aiming to bolster conservative majorities.
Billy Corriher, Judicial Issues Writer | September 30, 2020

As President Trump and the Senate prepare to quickly fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with a conservative judge, Amy Coney Barrett, Democrats are discussing the possibility of "packing" the court, should November's voters give them control over the White House and both houses of Congress.

Some critics argue that adding seats to the court, in an effort to diminish or reverse its conservative majority, would mean abandoning a longstanding norm against court packing. In recent years at the state level, however, some Republican politicians have already abandoned such norms.

And it's not as if norms around picking federal judges haven't eroded at the federal level. Both Democrats and Republicans eliminated the Senate filibuster for certain judicial appointments, after complaining about obstructionism by senators from the other party. And in 2016 and 2017, the Republican-led Senate left a Supreme Court seat vacant for a year, refusing to hold a vote on President Barack Obama's nominee.

But norms have eroded even further at the state level.

Why do Republicans and nominee Barrett keep claiming qualifications on whether a candidate can be proposed in the final year of a President's term? Why does the Executive and Legislative branches being held by different political parties change anything than if they aren't? Aren't both elected by voters and equally valid? I'm quite sick of politicians taking the easy way out and not compromising for the better of us all. Or being hypocrites and completely flip-flopping when it suits their purpose, like McConnell and Graham.