President Joe Biden mentioned Thursday that he nonetheless opposes increasing the Supreme Courtroom, at the same time as he criticized the excessive court docket’s ruling in opposition to affirmative motion at universities.
U MSNBC interviewBiden was requested if he anxious that with out Supreme Courtroom reforms, his conservative majority is “too younger and too conservative” and will do “an excessive amount of injury.”
“Properly, I feel they’ll do an excessive amount of injury, however I feel if we begin the method of making an attempt to broaden the court docket, we’ll politicize it, possibly without end, in a approach that is not wholesome,” the president mentioned.
His remarks in an interview with MSNBC got here the afternoon after a speech on the White Home wherein the president mentioned he disagreed with the court docket’s ruling on race-based faculty admissions.
“I feel some members of the court docket are beginning to understand that their legitimacy is being questioned in a approach that it hasn’t been questioned prior to now,” Biden additionally mentioned within the interview, including that it could possibly be Chief Justice John Roberts.
In October 2020, Biden pledged to create a bipartisan fee to review reforms to the federal judiciary, together with increasing the Supreme Courtroom. The fee issued a report in December 2021, however made no suggestions on the court docket’s enlargement.
