Back to episode — Episode 1340 Scott Adams - Court Packing, Floyd Trial, Vaccination Passports, North Korea and Fun
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All right. Biden is putting together a commission of so-called independent scholars and whatnot to talk about court packing and other court reforms. Now what do you think of that? Does this mean that Joe Biden is in favor of court packing and he's just putting a commission together to cover himself so that when he does it you can say, hey all these independent people, Democrats and Republicans, they said it'd be okay? Do you think that's what's going to happen?
I'm going to make a prediction and it goes like this. I of course, and you may have noticed, have sometimes been critical of President Biden. I've been critical of his let's say mental capabilities etc. But if you wanted to kill something with bureaucracy and make it look like the shot was fired by someone else you couldn't do much better than Joe Biden. Because it looks to me like Joe Biden is creating the commission specifically to not do court packing.
So this is my prediction. I believe most people on the right are saying oh no this is the first step to court packing so he plans to do it and he's just giving some cover for himself. Totally possible. All right so let me say as clearly as possible I'm not ruling that out. If you're just looking at the surface it kind of looks that way doesn't it? It looks sort of like he does plan to do it. So I will acknowledge that it looks exactly like he plans to do it. I'll acknowledge that that could be actually literally the reality. But I'm going to predict the opposite.
I predict that this is just cover so that when the scholars, most of them or all of them, say this is a bad idea and why, that Biden will have cover for not doing it. Now I think he might do some other court reforms. I don't know what they are but there might — you know it's always good to look at reforms. Here's why I think the commission will not recommend court packing. It's kind of obvious isn't it? Because the next president would just court pack again and then when it changes parties again they'd court pack again. Why wouldn't they? And then where does it stop? How big is the court?
But more importantly it doesn't even mat
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ter how big the court is. What matters is that would eliminate independence or even the semblance of independence of the judiciary. It would effectively destroy the republic as it was originally conceived. Now you could argue I'd like to destroy the republic but if you're not arguing that you would like to destroy the republic that's the bad idea. Because the independence of the three branches of…
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