On Friday morning during his remarks about taking executive action on abortion, Joe Biden continued his despicable attack on the Supreme Court.
He claimed, falsely, that the right to an abortion was “embedded in our Constitution.”
“We cannot allow an out-of-control Supreme Court, working in conjunction with extremist elements of the Republican party, to take away freedoms,” Biden railed. “The choice we face as a nation is between the mainstream and the extreme.”
Um, Joe? It’s the Supreme Court; you don’t have the right to overrule it. It’s a co-equal branch of government. It’s not your role to either make the law or decide what is constitutional. You don’t get to circumvent the law because you don’t like it. “We cannot allow” sounds a lot like he’s going to try to subvert the decision of the Court. Or at least that’s what he wants the base on the left to think.
But the problem is even if it’s empty rhetoric for him, it’s continuing to whip up that angry base. We’ve already seen how that hasn’t turned out well, with the assassination attempt against Justice Brett Kavanaugh and firebombings at crisis pregnancy centers. Protesters were even harassing Justice Kavanaugh at a restaurant on Wednesday, and he had to duck out the back door for safety.