Pelosi Says She Won’t Commit to Expanding Supreme Court, Backs Biden’s Commission
Expanding the Supreme Court could happen but should be studied first, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Thursday.
A group of House Democrats were expected to announce a bill later in the day that would expand the nation’s top court from nine seats to 13, with members upset that six of the current members were nominated by Republican presidents, including three Trump appointees.
Asked if she would commit to bringing the bill to a vote, Pelosi said, “no.”
“I support the president’s commission to study such a proposal but frankly, I’m not right now we’re back, our members, our committees are working, we’re putting the infrastructure bill and the rest [together],” she told reporters in Washington during her weekly press conference.
Yet, as the U.S. becomes increasingly more divisive, human issues and political issues are often one and the same. This makes it next-to-impossible for a brand to avoid politics altogether. Chloé Chanudet, the CMO of Adore Me, agrees: “Some things that don’t seem like political stances, actually are political stances. We started a big pivot towards sustainability. And while this seems like a no brainer, it turns out it’s actually a political issue.”
There’s a three-way tug of war between purpose, politics and partisanship.
In pursuing their brand purpose even when it intersects with politics brands are resolute to be seen as non-partisan. As Tony Ambroza, chief brand officer at Carhartt put it: “Political parties have now become an outsized part of our world. This shouldn’t be interpreted that brands should become partisan. However, people are more politically active and issue-aware. And that’s pulling in brands because they play an important role in culture and s
Democrats Introduce Bill to Expand Supreme Court, but Reception Is Tepid
A group of Democrats on Thursday unveiled their bill to expand the Supreme Court, but party leaders showed little support and Republicans assailed the proposal as radical.
The “Judiciary Act of 2021” would add four seats to the nation’s top court, effectively flipping the balance from 6–3 in favor of conservative-appointed justices to 7–6 in the opposite direction.
The rationale fueling the proposal is that Republicans confirmed Justice Amy Coney Barrett after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died last year. The GOP broke no rules or laws, but some Democrats were bitter that they did not hold the seat open for whoever won the 2020 election.
President Joe Biden plans to withdraw the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, 20 years to the day after the al Qaeda attacks that triggered America s longest war, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
President Joe Biden plans to withdraw the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept 11, 2021, 20 years to the day after the al-Qaida attacks that triggered America's longest war, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. The disclosure of the plan came on the same day that the U.S. intelligence…