On Saturday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Weekend, hosts and guests alike bemoaned Biden’s failure to seek to pack the Supreme Court.
Their comments came in response to oral arguments at the Court this past week on the case regarding Trump’s claim of presidential immunity. The panel expressed fears that the Court might expand presidential immunity — if not to the extent of the right to assassinate political rivals, as Trump’s lawyer suggested could be an immune act.
Co-host Alicia Menendez teed up the packing notion, saying that in light of what happened in the Court last week, clearly something “structural”–packing or court “reform” is necessary.
Guest Ankush Khadori strongly agreed, calling Biden’s failure to push for packing a “historic political miscalculation.”
Co-anchor Symone Sanders Townsend, mentioning that she had worked for Biden, said that…
