Activists insist they will keep pressure on Joe Biden to pursue dramatic reforms to the Supreme Court if Republicans move forward with a plan to quickly approve President Trump's pick to replace the late Justice Ginsburg.
“The majority of Berniecrats will most likely vote for Vice President Joe Biden,” said Nina Turner, a former Ohio state senator and top adviser to progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. “That doesn’t mean that they are not going to raise hell all the way.”
Since then, the makeup of the court hasn't been a prominent issue in national politics. That began to change after. Calls to add justices grew much louder this week in response to the GOP's rush to fill Ginsburg's seat before the election, which would leave the court with six conservatives and three liberals.
During his first extended comments Sunday about Ginsburg's death, Biden appealed to the few remaining moderate Senate Republicans to buck their party's leadership, rather than to progressives looking for him to support a larger court. The New York congresswoman spent months expressing skepticism toward Biden but also was co-leader of a task force on climate change that top Biden supporters and advisers formed with their counterparts from Sanders' unsuccessful presidential campaign to try to better reach consensus on top issues.
During a speech Thursday, Sanders warned that Trump is openly suggesting that he'll brand as illegitimate any election he loses. He cited “the danger that this country faces from a president who is a pathological liar, who has strong authoritarian tendencies, who neither understands nor respects our Constitution and who is prepared to undermine American democracy in order to stay in power.”
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