By Summer Concepcion and Sarah Dean – NBCNews
President Joe Biden warned Saturday night about the possibility that former President Donald Trump would appoint two new Supreme Court justices if he wins the presidency in November.
“The next president is likely to have two new Supreme Court nominees, two more,” Biden said at a campaign fundraiser in Los Angeles, adding that Trump had already named two judges who are “very negative.” in terms of people’s rights.”
“I think it is one of the scariest parts”Biden stressed.
Biden’s comments came at a campaign fundraiser in Los Angeles, where he appeared alongside former President Barack Obama, actors George Clooney and Julia Roberts and comedian Jimmy Kimmel.
At the fundraiser, the president participated in a debate with Kimmel and Obama in which several political issues were addressed. Kimmel noted that almost two years ago, conservative judges appointed by Trump They played a key role in overturning Roe v. Wadethe historic ruling that guaranteed the constitutional right to access to abortion.
“These threats to abortion rights, to women’s rights, even to birth control and in vitro fertilization are no longer in our liberal imagination,” Kimmel declared.
“They are very real, and these very personal and intimate decisions are now made by nine unelected judges, one of whom flies his flag upside down. “One of the others is going on vacation after a gift of $267,000,” the comedian added, referring to the controversies surrounding conservative Supreme Court justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, who came under scrutiny for undisclosed trips. that was given to them by a Republican Party mega-donor.
“And I think we’re all wondering: What can we do about it?” Kimmel asked.
“Elect me again”Biden said, adding that the Supreme Court “has never been as out of balance as it is today” and that Trump would “name two more flags that fly backwards,” referring to reports that an upside-down flag was flown outside the house. of Alito in early 2021.
[Graban en secreto a dos magistrados de la Corte Suprema. Uno dice que EE.UU. debe ser un “lugar de devoción religiosa”]
Some Trump supporters who were at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 had waved the American flag upside down during the attack, which was sparked by the then-president’s unfounded claims that there had been fraud in the 2020 election and his refusal to accept defeat.
Dick Durbin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he would not investigate Alito over the inverted flag, but urged the conservative judge to step aside from two pending cases involving Trump and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Alito decided not to recuse himself after he came under fire for the upside-down flag on his home and another controversial flag that was allegedly raised on a second property of his. In letters sent to members of Congress last month, Alito He maintained that it was his wife who decided to raise the flags.
John Roberts, chief justice of the Supreme Court, also rejected a request from Democratic senators to meet with them to discuss issues related to Supreme Court ethics in light of the flag controversy.
