Opinion | Furor over the Supreme Court could be the key to Biden’s reelection – By Austin Sarat (The Hill) / July 6, 2023
President Biden has a large oil painting of Franklin Delano Roosevelt hanging prominently in the Oval Office. And as he gears up for the 2024 campaign, there is much that he can learn from FDR.
He should follow the example of what Roosevelt did during his first reelection campaign and do everything he can to make the radicalism of the Supreme Court’s ultra-conservative justices into a voting issue next year.
A quick history lesson:
After the court had rejected a number of New Deal initiatives, according to an article in The Nation, “Democrats charg[ed] that a court made up of nine old men appointed by presidents ‘now dead or repudiated’ had made itself […] ‘the sovereign power of the United States.’”
