Former President Obama said Friday in an interview with Pod Save America that he is open to reforming the Supreme Court to regain Americans' trust but warned against 'explicit political games.'
A July poll by the AP and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that 67% of AmericansWhen asked if he'd consider reforms to address challenges with voters' distrust of the Supreme Court, Obama said on the podcast, "I'm open to it."
"I think it has to be thought through," he added during the interview, which premiered Friday on SiriusXM Progress. "One of the arguments we made at the time when [Mitch] McConnell decided that ... [Merrick Garland] wouldn’t even get a hearing or a vote, is that if you start playing such explicit political games in the appointment process, it’s hard for people not to feel as if this is just an extension of day-to-day congressional politics as opposed to — the Supreme Court stands above, to some degree, those politics.
"And I think winning back that trust is gonna take some time," he noted. "I'm not sure it's even gonna be solved unless we solve some of the underlying polarization."In 2016, then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to consider Obama's nomination of Garland, now the attorney general, as a justice to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.I’ve made in my public career" after Roe was overturned, saying the choice led directly to the ruling.
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