Biden's proposed radical changes to the Supreme Court are just another vote grab

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Once again, President Joe Biden has embraced a predictable and tiresome ploy to gin up votes by vilifying the justices on our nation’s highest court.

The timing is no coincidence.

An election is fast approaching, so our lame duck president trotted out the same jaded and politically-driven bromide to "reform" the U.S. Supreme Court that we’ve heard so many times before.

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In his speech on Monday at the LBJ Presidential Library in Texas outlining his plan, Biden railed against the "extreme positions of the Supreme Court."

Except those positions have not been extreme at all.

As former U.S. Attorney General William Barr explained in a Fox News op-ed, "the actual numbers do not back up the hysterical claims of a ‘partisan Court.’" Nearly half of the rulings were unanimous in the most recent term. Only a small number —eleven— were decided along ideological lines.

Naturally, Biden’s newly anointed replacement,Vice President Kamala Harris, is all on board. She reflexively endorsed his proposal because, she claimed, the high court is mired in a "clear crisis of confidence."

Except no such crisis exists.

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