VIEWPOINT | Presidential campaigns against the Supreme Court: familiar and effective

Guest column by David Adler, The Alturas Institute

President Joe Biden, seeking a second term, is running against the U.S. Supreme Court. Keenly aware of the Court’s declining approval ratings, the growing storm of concerns surrounding the ethics of some of its members, and the national outrage stemming from decisions that overturned precedents protecting voting rights and reproductive rights, Biden believes he has found an issue that resonates with American voters. Throw in the Court’s recent ruling that presidents possess immunity from criminal prosecution, a declaration, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor stated in a dissenting opinion, that places the nation’s chief executive above the law, and Biden has a stump speech that will travel across fifty states.

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