Joe Biden The New President Thoughts So Far?

[butlers 261]

Biden putting a Commission together to look at expanding the Supreme Court..

 

In a country that votes majority Democratic nationally it's perverse the Supreme Court is so weighted Republican

[andyofborg 11]

21 minutes ago, butlers said:

Biden putting a Commission together to look at expanding the Supreme Court..

 

In a country that votes majority Democratic nationally it's perverse the Supreme Court is so weighted Republican

I'm not so sure the democrat/republican split of the court is all that important. The key is the quality of the appointee. Most of the judges who make it to the top tend take the duty quite seriously and show a first loyalty to the law/constitution rather than the president who nominated them or personal beliefs. 

 

There are other alternatives like fixed terms and drawing the members at random from the federal judges. They might produce a "better" court which is harder to stack with court with judges of a particular opinion. 

 

[Delbow 699]

Surely the best option would be to make appointments independent and the judiciary independent of politicians. It's a farce how both parties try to load the court with their appointments and then pray they'll live for ages.

[butlers 261]

The obstructionists of the Republicans denied Obama's pick yet pushed through the nomination of  Kavanaugh who seemed to have questions to answer.

 I can see the benefit of lifetime appointments  means the justices don't have to carry favour if the Party

[altus 540]

23 minutes ago, butlers said:

The obstructionists of the Republicans denied Obama's pick yet pushed through the nomination of  Kavanaugh who seemed to have questions to answer.

 I can see the benefit of lifetime appointments  means the justices don't have to carry favour if the Party

More particularly, the Republicans argued that if a supreme court judge died in the last year of a term (a right wing one had died in Obama's last year) they shouldn't be replaced until after the election and the Democrats left it to the next president to pick a replacement. During Trump's last year left leaning judge Ruth Ginsburg died 6 weeks before the election and the Republicans rushed through a right wing replacement with indecent haste in five weeks - appointing her one week before the election.

 

The Republicans have unbalanced the supreme court with three appointees under Trump's presidency, it's not surprising that the Democrats want to, at least partially, restore that balance.

[ab6262 202]

17 hours ago, Delbow said:

with guns

and they are usually unlicensed nutters who would get a gun anyway to carry out their madness?

[Delbow 699]

21 minutes ago, ab6262 said:

and they are usually unlicensed nutters who would get a gun anyway to carry out their madness?

Not true as far as I know

[Janus 28]

4 hours ago, ab6262 said:

and they are usually unlicensed nutters who would get a gun anyway to carry out their madness?

Apparently it's the 'any way method' of obtaining guns that Joe Biden is addressing. Starting with a crackdown on the proliferation of so-called ghost guns, or firearms assembled from kits. 

 

It's a start, and I hope he will go further.

[apelike 10]

1 hour ago, Janus said:

It's a start, and I hope he will go further.

But how far can he go when the right of people to keep and bear arms is written into their constitution.

[enntee 10]

41 minutes ago, apelike said:

But how far can he go when the right of people to keep and bear arms is written into their constitution.

The 2nd Ammendment is ambiguous.

Current (and previous) Supreme Court decision has interpreted in favour of the gun-owning lobby.

A different minded court could see that the absence of any need to maintain a militia can remove the right to bear arms.

Political appointment to the Supreme Court will always influence such decisions.

[Delbow 699]

On 08/04/2021 at 13:23, ab6262 said:

why on earth or how on earth you can enforce a global minimum corporation tax rate? the man is deluded, why should companies be held to account for government financial inadequacies.

Biden has pulled it off. Global minimum corporation tax rate agreed meaning multinationals will no longer be able to offshore their profits.

[butlers 261]

Radical socialism 😉. 

 

Caught headline yesterday that Mircosoft, registered in Ireland, paid no cooperate tax on $200billion of international sales.

 

 

 

Bout time the transnationals  paid their share