FLASHBACK: Biden Calls Court-Packing ‘Bonehead Idea’

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President Biden and the Democrats are now pushing to pack the Supreme Court with new legislation. Ironically, President Biden avoided this topic during the 2020 presidential election, but he’s talked about how bad of an idea this is during the course of his political career.

FLASHBACK THREAD: Remember when Biden asserted that packing the court is “a bonehead idea"? pic.twitter.com/UTi1GTXzXi

— JCN (@judicialnetwork) April 9, 2021

He’s been extremely critical of people in the past that have been supportive of the idea. He was openly opposed when FDR tried this very tactic decades ago:

In 1987, then-Senator @JoeBiden quoted the Senate's 1937 condemnation of FDR's attempt to pack the Supreme Court:

“It is a measure which should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented to the free representatives of the free people of America.” pic.twitter.com/YQyKUgTt7c

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 9, 2021

Let’s fast forward to 2020, when Biden again said he “wasn’t a fan” of packing the Supreme Court. Other than that, he’s dodged the question completely:

Remember when Joe Biden told the American people we “don’t deserve” to know whether he’d pack the court? https://t.co/fg6TiFStL4

— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) April 15, 2021

The number of Supreme Court justices has been nine since 1869, but that could change again if the Democrats have something to say about it.