Speaking to reporters during the daily briefing at the White House Tuesday afternoon, Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre failed to explain why President Joe Biden changed his position on the Supreme Court just months ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Biden published an unprecedented attack on the Supreme Court in the Washington Post Monday and called for 18 year terms limits -- a position he strongly and consistently opposed as late as 2020.
JACQUI : “Is this Supreme Court proposal just an election year gambit?”
KJP: “I will say this. I think, if you read the Washington Post op-ed that the President put out yesterday, if you listen to his speech, he was reacting to what SCOTUS has been doing over the past — not just past couple of weeks but certainly in the last two years starting from Dobbs and so many other — uh — important decisions that have to come out of — um — come out of the Supreme Court.
JACQUI : “Is this Supreme Court proposal just an election year gambit?”
KJP: “I will say this. I think, if you read the Washington Post op-ed that the President put out yesterday, if you listen to his speech, he was reacting to what SCOTUS has been doing over the past — not just past couple of weeks but certainly in the last two years starting from Dobbs and so many other — uh — important decisions that have to come out of — um — come out of the Supreme Court.