US supreme court reform is now on the table. The election stakes just got higher

‘Biden noted that the US is the only major constitutional democracy that gives lifetime appointments to its high court justices.’ Photograph: Jemal Countess/UPI/REX/Shutterstock

We already knew the monumental stakes in this election: prosecutor v felon, the rule of law v the rule of raw power; democracy v dictatorship; women’s right to decide who they want to be and whether or not they wish to bear children v the Handmaid’s Tale.

Now add US supreme court reform v retrenchment. On Monday, Joe Biden proposed concrete steps to correct the supreme court extremism that Donald Trump has enabled through three appointments to the court. And the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris quickly endorsed it.