Americans ‘Can’t Allow’ Trump To Appoint More Supreme Court Judges, Biden Tells Crowd

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At a new campaign event following the debate held last week with former President Donald Trump, incumbent President Joe Biden warned of the prospect of the next president appointing multiple new members of the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans are attacking the most basic values and freedoms as Americans: the right to be yourself, the right to make your own health decisions, the right to marry the person you love, the right to raise your own children,” said Biden, presumably referring with that last bit to worries about IVF. “Folks, let’s be clear: The Supreme Court is on the ballot this November because the next president of the United States is likely to be able to appoint two or more Supreme Court justices in the next term.  We can’t allow Trump to nominate more justices, the impact — which would impact the next 30, 40, 50 years of this nation.”

Three nominees from Trump’s first stint as president are already on the bench, where they helped drive the court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, the longstanding legal precedent that provided a national baseline of protections for abortion. The reversal punted the handling of abortion to legislators, including at the state level, where Republicans in state after state quickly ran with a panoply of restrictions, though states that lean more Democratic continue to implement protections instead, including via state Constitutional amendments.

One of Trump’s lines lately is that the reversal of Roe was actually a widely supported outcome, which is contradicted by seemingly much of the evidence at hand, from the extensive protests after the case’s undoing to polling of Americans.

Now, Americans are also awaiting a decision from that same high court on Trump’s claims of sweeping legal immunity by mere virtue of being president that supposedly should stop the 2020 election-related criminal case he’s facing.