2023-07-08 05:39:46
The White House strikes back at the most recent attempt by the Supreme Court to undermine some Administration policy. In this case, the student debt forgiveness project, which Joe Biden had made one of his flags for his re-election. Now, after the Supreme Court ruling forced a halt to student debt forgiveness, the president has unveiled a new payment plan that could lower borrowers’ monthly fees, as well as other debt relief initiatives. The executive action will be led by the Department of Education and there is still no major reaction in this regard.
This is the response to the last pulse that the Supreme Court with a conservative majority and the president maintain. As Democrats reel from those Supreme Court losses in recent weeks, Biden faces renewed pressure from various elements of his party, from liberal lawmakers to abortion rights activists, to more forcefully embrace deep changes. in the high court.
Amid the run-up to 2024, Biden has been harshly critical of the Supreme Court’s sharp shift to the right, but has steered clear of backing any of the more extreme reforms that could tip the scales. Among those proposals that come from the most radical wing of his own party are the expansion of the court, the imposition of term limits or the establishment of mandatory retirements.
Today, the Supreme Court is made up of nine judges, of which only three can be said to be liberal. The rest have a more fundamentalist vision of the Constitution and based on that they are reforming the US. Precisely, the argument of liberal activists and legislators to change the rules of the Supreme Court comes from how they believe that right-wing dominance was obtained. It all goes back to the end of Barack Obama’s presidency, when then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to even grant a confirmation hearing to Obama’s last pick, Merrick Garland, the current attorney general in the Biden administration. This allowed the next president, that is, Donald Trump. appoint Justice Neil Gorsuch as his first Supreme Court nominee in 2017. But McConnell then turned his back on his own questionable tenet that Supreme Court nominees should not rise in an election year by speeding up confirmation of the final pick of Trump, Amy Coney Barrett, in 2020, which enshrined the current 6-3 conservative majority.
Since then, the country has witnessed several changes. In addition to student debt forgiveness, the Supreme Court recently rejected the use of affirmative action on college admissions, sided with a graphic artist who doesn’t want to create same-sex wedding websites, and reversed access to abortion by returning power to each State.
In general, the esteem that Americans have today of the Supreme Court is low compared to any survey of the last twenty years. The latest Quinnipiac University poll puts his disapproval at 55%. “The court is already in a very unhealthy state,” explains Brian Fallon, executive director of Demand Justice, a liberal advocacy group that backs expanding the court as liberal voices are proposing. Like Fallon, there are those who believe that the path that has begun to be collected is only the beginning of several decisions that will arrive each June, at which time the Supreme Court exposes its decisions on different matters.
Conservatives, on the other hand, view the court’s trajectory very differently. According to them, the recent decisions have only begun to restore constitutional order after decades in which, they maintain, the federal judiciary leaned to the left.
The challenge for President Joe Biden is to convince an overwhelming majority of voters that this issue, which sometimes seems so distant from other issues like inflation, is important enough to mobilize them to the polls.
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