07-09-2022, 08:46 PM
(07-09-2022, 08:39 PM)samhain Wrote: The presidency and the power of the office may not mean much in the grand scheme of things, but it really does in this instance. This is all about the court and who's in office when someone on it decides to call it a career or dies. If a majority of Americans, male or female want federal protection for the right to an abortion, then it stands to reason that they need to keep a Democrat in office in order to very gradually move the court back in the direction of being pro-choice.
It took the right 50 years to ram this through, so you need to play the long game if you want it back. The court isn't supposed to be a partisan entity, but it clearly is at this point. The main purpose of election a president IMO is ensuring that you get the justices you want on the court, or at the very least prevent ones you don't from getting appointed.
Another aside, the presidency is basically the only office that the right can't gerrymander into more or less impossible districts for the left. Dems will get the most bang for their buck by winning POTUS, even if the right manages to rule in favor of laughably partisan gerrymandering with their activist court in the next few months.
That could all change if Moore v. Harper goes the Republican's way in October.
