Joe Biden worries that the “extreme” US supreme court, dominated by rightwing justices, cannot be relied upon to uphold the rule of law.

“I worry,” the president told ProPublica in interview published on Sunday. “Because I know that if the other team, the Maga Republicans, win, they don’t want to uphold the rule of law.”

“Maga” is shorthand for “Make America great again”, Donald Trump’s campaign slogan. Trump faces 91 criminal charges and assorted civil threats but nonetheless dominates Republican polling for the nomination to face Biden in a presidential rematch next year.

In four years in the White House, Trump nominated and saw installed three conservative justices, tilting the court 6-3 to the right. That court has delivered significant victories for conservatives, including the removal of the right to abortion and major rulings on gun control, affirmative action and other issues.

The new court term, which starts on Tuesday, could see further such rulings on matters including government environmental and financial regulation.

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      There's the problem. You think one party is inherently bad and one is inherently good. That's completely an idiotic take. But you're too stupid to see that.

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        You don't have to believe that to believe that the parties are not the same. "Inherent good" is a philosophical construct that isn't present in the real world- adopting a fatal nihilism in the face of that is the true idiocy.

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        The problem is you see this is a party issue rather than an American issue. Seems more like the only idiotic take here is your own.

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          That's my entire point. It isn't a party issue. The whole system needs flipped on its head. You've formed a rebuttal without even understanding the argument. Why?

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            One party is objectively and cumulatively 'bad' in almost any comparative context by a reasonable observer, and you projected your own views onto others by making assumptions about how they define one party bad on party good. Your point was to dilute the issue so you can prop up the 'both sides' delusion while hurling personal insults at the op. Yeah, the whole system could use a reboot, but playing to that point as gotcha drive-by comments without solutions is just spewing word salad for the sake of typing more words. You are trolling.

            The argument seems entirely ost on you in the first place. You don't understand how your assumptions and insults are the problem rather than 'the point'. Why?

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              Dude, your entire comment is based off assumptions. You think I don't understand the argument yet here you are completely clueless. You don't even know what 'the point' is. You're just mad because how dare someone criticize your favorite party. You've got one party full of bullshit and the other full of incompetence. If you support either one, you're an idiot.

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                You are intentionally ignoring that your assumptions and insults are the problem rather than ‘the point’. Why?