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Biden: After Iraq, Court Will Be Obama's Most Important Legacyby Josh Gerstein
Senator Biden wants voters and Democratic activists to put more focus on the consequences for the Supreme Court that will flow from the outcome of this fall's presidential race. "Other than ending the war in Iraq, the single most significant thing that Barack Obama will do, and I hope I'll be able to help him, will be to determine who the next members of the Supreme Court are going to be," Mr. Obama's choice for vice president, Mr. Biden, told the largely-female audience today at an economic forum in Denver organized by the Obama campaign. "That court will live longer than an Obama-Biden administration, when we serve for eight years." Mr. Biden said he and Mr. Obama weathered criticism when they voted against two of President Bush's Supreme Court nominees, Justice Alito and Chief Justice Roberts. "I got in trouble and Barack got in trouble," the senator from Delaware said. However, he said his warning about the threat the two nominees posed turned out to be correct. "They began to try to roll back Brown v. Board of Education," Mr. Biden said, referring to the landmark 1954 school desgregation case and to a decision last year in which the Supreme Court by a 5-4 margin struck down a desegregation plan from Seattle. "These guys and women are very smart. They believe what they say. They are ideologues. They want to change the way we as Americans, most Americans believe we have the right to run our lives."Mr. Biden said he expects at least one and perhaps as many as three vacancies on the Supreme Court in the first term of the next president. "It will affect the lives of all your children," he said. "It's not merely a woman's right to choose which is at stake, it's whether or not you're going to be able to have a fair shot at a fair wage. It's whether or not you are going to be able to demand that you are treated equally in every aspect of your life. ...Please help us. The country needs Barack Obama as president." It's not surprising that Mr. Biden, a member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, would view the Supreme Court as a significant political issue, but in surveys voters, particularly swing voters, rarely mention the direction of the court as key to their votes. Related Topics: General Election |
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