Paul Craig: ‘Court-packing’ bill ill-advised
Published: 4/29/2021 1:10:04 PM
During last year’s presidential campaign, both presidential candidate Joe Biden and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris artfully dodged questions by reporters about packing the U.S. Supreme Court.
Today, truth and reality have come to pass. Congress has a court-packing bill in the works while President Biden has created a court-reform study group. No matter what our own Sen. Edward J. Markey asserts, the Court is neither “broken” nor “out of balance.”
Markey et alia may not like the current composition of the Court, but that is not sufficient reason for their so-called court reform that would make the Court a virtual legislature.
Paul M. Craig: ’Living history’
Published: 2/9/2021 1:49:35 PM
If President Biden prevails, we’ll have a new face on our $20 bill. He wants ex-slave and staunch abolitionist Harriet Tubman to replace seventh president Andrew Jackson.
Biden’s move renews a design change proposed about five years ago during the Obama presidency, which met some resistance mainly along anti-capitalist lines of argument contending that putting Tubman on money traduced her legacy. But if Tubman is to grace the $20 Federal Reserve note, a new back design is also needed. That new design should be the Bill of Rights seriatim for each of 10 Federal Reserve Districts. Then the “We hold these truths to be self-evident…” sentence from the Declaration of Independence for another district, and, finally, the 13th Amendment (or, the 13th and 15th amendments) for the last of the 12 districts.