Biden Refuses to Expand Supreme Court
The landmark ruling, Roe v. Wade, which protected a woman’s right to an abortion at the federal level was overturned by the Supreme Court on Friday. Democratic lawmakers are now calling for the expansion of the Supreme Court which is currently a conservative majority, but President Joe Biden said does not agree with such a reform.
Democrats across the nation are urging for additional justices to be appointed to the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) in order to balance what has become a heavily conservative court.
Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren has suggested this week that the matter of expanding SCOTUS is urgent after justice Clarence Thomas indicated that he is also considering overturning other precedents which protect the use of contraception, same-sex marriage, and consensual gay sex. Earlier, SCOTUS overturned New York’s concealed carry law, despite a mass shooting in Buffalo as well as an overall increase in shootings in New York City.
"We need to balance out this court before they do more harm than what they've done thus far," said New York City Mayor Eric Adams at a press conference on Friday, where he said he would not be mayor today if his previous partner had not gotten an abortion when he was 15. Adams called court expansion “critical”.
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