Biden surrogates brushed off questions about reining in the court, while emphasizing the gravity of a second Trump term.

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that American presidents have “absolute immunity” from prosecution for any “official acts” they take while in office. For President Joe Biden, this should be great news. Suddenly a host of previously unthinkable options have opened up to him: He could dispatch Seal Team 6 to Mar-A-Lago with orders to neutralize the “primary threat to freedom and democracy” in the United States. He could issue an edict that all digital or physical evidence of his debate performance last week be destroyed. Or he could just use this chilling partisan decision, the latest 6-3 ruling in a term that was characterized by a staggering number of them, as an opportunity to finally embrace the movement to reform the Supreme Court.

But Biden is not planning to do any of that. Shortly after the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Trump v. The United States, the Biden campaign held a press call with surrogates, including Harry Dunn, a Capitol police officer who was on duty the day Trump supporters stormed the building on Jan. 6; Reps. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) and Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas); and deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks.

Their message was simple: It’s terrifying to contemplate what Donald Trump might do with these powers if he’s reelected.

“We have to do everything in our power to stop him,” Fulks said.

Everything, that is, except take material action to rein in the increasingly lawless and openly right-wing Supreme Court.

  • AshMan85@lemmy.world
    2212·
    6 months ago

    You are confusing liberals and centrist democrats. Biden and his other centrists are not putting up a fight at all. While liberals like AOC, Sanders and porter have been fighting since day 1. I’m a liberal and every traitor connected to this coup should be hung.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2710·
      6 months ago

      You are confusing liberals and centrist democrats.

      No, he’s not. Liberalism is a center-right ideology. Liberals and centrist Democrats are the same people.

      You’re the one using the term incorrectly as some kind of synonym for leftists.

      • pjwestin@lemmy.world
        143·
        6 months ago

        You can usually tell how old someone is by whether or not they think, “liberal,” and, “progressive,” are synonyms.

        • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
          47·
          6 months ago

          Counterpoint- you can tell how terminally online someone is by thinking liberal doesn’t mean progressive in the US.

          I disagree with the labeling but it’s one of the silly infighting things people on the left have to understand. Fifteen years ago I was proud to call myself a liberal. Now I know the “real” definition and I don’t call myself that. But my positions haven’t changed much. I’m really hearing what anarchists have to say these days but I call myself a socialist, the same as I did back then.

      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        57·
        6 months ago

        News flash, words are used differently in different countries. You can try to fight semantic battles on archaic or international definitions of “liberal”, but that’s a pointless waste of time and not what it means to most Americans. It’s well past the point that an incorrect usage has become an alternate definition.

        https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liberalism

      • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
        21·
        6 months ago

        They worked together in Congress forever. I work with people who suck all the time and I call them buddy.

        • hypnoton@discuss.online
          41·
          6 months ago

          When Bernie was campaigning against Biden he defended Biden’s candidacy multiple times over his own. That’s a huge problem. And people who support billionaires are not our friends. But Bernie is such a people pleaser.

          Bernie wants the right policies and outcomes, but he’s not a fighter and has no backbone.

          • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
            32·
            6 months ago

            I want Bernie to wrap his sallow yet expansive hand skin entirely around my throbbing member as I cum to a photo of Michelle Obama’s ankles.

            Forgot what we were talking about. Oh yeah, fuck you Bernie is a hard nose fighter. It’s amazing he gets around and yells at people at his age. When he was younger than me he got arrested marching for civil rights. He is embraced by thought leaders in the black community and idolized by Christians even though he’s a Jew against Israel. Fuck you man Bernie is 87 years old and I’m here for it