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President Joe Biden promised Black voters Wednesday that he would appoint progressives to the US Supreme Court if elected to a second term, suggesting he expects vacancies on the high court over the next four years.

President Joe Biden promised Black voters Wednesday that he would appoint progressives to the US Supreme Court if elected to a second term, suggesting he expects vacancies on the high court over the next four years.

“The next president, they’re going to be able to appoint a couple justices, and I’ll be damned — if in fact we’re able to change some of the justices when they retire and put in really progressive judges like we’ve always had, tell me that won’t change your life,” he said during a campaign rally in Philadelphia.

It was as explicit a warning as Biden could offer about the stakes of the upcoming election, and a clear reminder that some of the nine justices have entered their seventies.

Clarence Thomas is 75 and Samuel Alito is 74; both are conservative and appointed by Republican presidents. Sonia Sotomayor, a liberal who was nominated by President Barack Obama, turns 70 next month.

  • NJSpradlin@lemmy.world
    714·
    1 month ago

    Nah, man. I’m totes voting for my boy Trump because he said I can have my gas stove and gas truck. So, double issue voter. Fully supporting my golden bro because he’s my christo brother.

    Idc about his;

    1. blackmailing of Ukraine, and his impeachment from this,
    2. support and ties to rush-ah, and other dictatorships around the world,
    3. undermining democracy globally, to include threats of pulling out of our global defense alliances,
    4. violent rhetoric and attempted coup, and his impeachment for this,
    5. sex with a pornstar and hush up payment utilizing campaign funds and subsequent corruption and coverup, (edit: convicted felon on 34 charges)
    6. attempt to destroy the USPS in order to undermine mail in voting during a pandemic,
    7. terrible handling of the pandemic and undermining trust in science on the subject contributing significantly to large American death toll,
    8. Appointing under-skilled and extreme AND extremely partisan Supreme Court justices who; destroyed women’s right to medical privacy and their abortion rights, are constantly undermining voters rights across the country, are constantly undermining equal rights for LGBTQ citizens,
    9. for his raiding of government and tax payer coffers by; removing the oversight body for PPP loans and stating he would ‘personally oversee it himself’ which lead to significant corruption and theft, by giving the ultra wealthy further tax breaks at the expense of the middle and lower class, by utilizing his venues AND not distancing himself from his organization and funneling money for his Secret Service at his overpriced hotels,
    10. I’m done, I can’t give an all inclusive list of things I’m going to ignore for my Bro (twice impeached) (edit: Felon*) Former President Trump.