Biden in 1983: Packing the Supreme Court ‘a Bonehead Idea’

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Biden in 1983: Packing the Supreme Court ‘a Bonehead Idea’
By Patrick Goodenough | October 11, 2020 | 7:17pm EDT
 

(CNSNews.com) – Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden continues to refuse to tell voters ahead of Election Day whether he supports increasing the size of the Supreme Court, but 37 years ago he called past proposals to add justices to the bench a “bonehead idea.”

Then-Senator Biden was speaking during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in July 1983 on nominations to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, amid controversy over President Reagan’s attempts to replace three members of the commission.

Critics argued that Reagan had the right to do what he was doing, but in the process was damaging the credibility of the commission. Explaining his intention to oppose Reagan’s nominees, Biden offered an “analogy that is not totally appropriate,” and recalled President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s unsuccessful proposal in 1937 to expand the Supreme Court bench by six justices.

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/patrick-goodenough/biden-1983-packing-supreme-court-bonehead-idea

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Biden in 1983: Packing the Supreme Court ‘a Bonehead Idea’
By Patrick Goodenough | October 11, 2020 | 7:17pm EDT
 

(CNSNews.com) – Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden continues to refuse to tell voters ahead of Election Day whether he supports increasing the size of the Supreme Court, but 37 years ago he called past proposals to add justices to the bench a “bonehead idea.”

Then-Senator Biden was speaking during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in July 1983 on nominations to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, amid controversy over President Reagan’s attempts to replace three members of the commission.

Critics argued that Reagan had the right to do what he was doing, but in the process was damaging the credibility of the commission. Explaining his intention to oppose Reagan’s nominees, Biden offered an “analogy that is not totally appropriate,” and recalled President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s unsuccessful proposal in 1937 to expand the Supreme Court bench by six justices.

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/patrick-goodenough/biden-1983-packing-supreme-court-bonehead-idea

That’s the democrat party for you, full of boneheads.