Joe Biden Needs To Answer Questions About Packing The Supreme Court

During the presidential debate tonight, former Vice President Joe Biden might actually have to answer a question or two about the Supreme Court—specifically, about whether he supports plans to pack the court if he wins the White House and Democrats regain a majority in the Senate in November. He might even have to answer questions about ending the filibuster and abolishing the Electoral College.

After all, these are no longer fringe positions of the radical left but serious proposals being debated within the Democratic Party. Not only are such questions appropriate, but voters deserve to know what the Democratic Party’s candidate for president thinks about them and whether he plans to support them once in office.

Biden has in the past expressed opposition to expanding the Supreme Court, but now he’s reluctant to say what he thinks even as the idea is going mainstream within his own party. Over the weekend, Biden refused to answer a direct question about packing the court, saying that whatever answer he gave would become a “big issue” and distract from “the issue before us,” which presumably is Biden’s talking point about how Trump has botched the coronavirus response.