Bill de Blasio: ‘We Have To Think About’ Packing The Court

MRC Latino | October 25, 2020
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JORGE RAMOS: You openly support Vice President Biden for the White House. And this is what happened on Thursday during a town hall meeting. 

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: If they vote and before the election, you are open to expanding the court?. 

JOE BIDEN: I'm open to considering what happens from that point on. 

STEPHANOPOULOS: You said so many times during the campaign, all through the course of your career, it's important to level… 

BIDEN: It is, but George, if I say, no matter what answer I gave you. If I say it, that's the headline tomorrow. It won't be about what's going on now. The improper way they're proceeding.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But don't voters have a right to know where you stand. 

BIDEN:  They do have a right to know where I stand. I have a right to know where I stand before they vote. 

STEPHANOPOULOS: So you'll come out with a clear position before Election Day?. 

BIDEN: Yes. Depending on how they handle this.

RAMOS: Mayor, do you think Biden is making a mistake by not answering that question? 

BILL DE BLASIO: No, I think he's actually being very methodical. Jorge look, if the right thing happens and the Senate does not act or cannot put together the votes and the people actually get to decide in an election that's just a few weeks away. There's no reason then to have, in my opinion, a discussion about increasing the Supreme Court. If we can have a fair process to choose the next justice, we can leave the court with the same numbers it has. But if instead, the Republican majority violates any sense of decency and democracy and forces through this nomination, and now we have a Supreme Court that is unrepresentative of our democratic process, well, then it's a very valid idea to say we should consider adding justices. So, I think the vice president saying, you know what, if Barrett doesn't go through, different discussion, but if she does, then we have to think about adding justices

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