Biden critics press for more SCOTUS action

What Biden’s friendly critics want him to do:

1. Hit the court — not just its decisions — consistently.

“His admiration for the court as an institution has been overtaken by reality,” says Harvard Law professor LAURENCE TRIBE, a member of the commission and someone who has advised Biden on legal matters for decades. “I think it’s time to wake up.” Doing so, the thinking goes, underscores the need to reform the court itself, rather than simply disagreeing with its decisions.

2. Don’t take court expansion off the table. Instead, they say, the president should let advocates campaign to grow support for the proposal.

“Why does Joe Biden consider it his job to keep the public having confidence in a court that is completely working to thwart his agenda?” asks BRIAN FALLON, the executive director of court reform group Demand Justice. “He’s not ready to endorse it. [But] why demotivate his people that are passionate and upset at that moment? Why not leave a little fear in the minds of the Republican justices on the court about what he might support once he gets into office? Why not put a little fear into MITCH MCCONNELL about what he might be for?”