While the Democratic candidates may have different approaches, the fact that abortion rights were discussed at all is a step in the right direction.
. Moderator Burnett pointed out that the Supreme Court, while theoretically non-partisan, is currently made up of five Republican-appointed justices and four appointed by Democrats. The court recently announced that it will hear a case on abortion rights.
Biden responded that he would not “get into court-packing,” and went on to point out his own reproductive rights record, which includes support for codifyingand defeating ultra-conservative Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork in 1987. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, on the other hand, supports expanding the court from nine to 15 justices.
Julian Castro and Sen. Elizabeth Warren also said they’re not in favor of expanding the Supreme Court. Castro instead proposed looking at the court’s term limits, and Warren said, “We should not leave this to the Supreme Court. We should do it through democracy, because we can,” since the vast majority of Americans support “The stakes have never been this high,” Kelley Robinson, executive director of Planned Parenthood Votes, said in a statement provided to Refinery29.
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