During a White House press briefing on Monday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about President Biden saying the next president will get two new Supreme Court nominees.
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00:00The President said this weekend that the next President is likely to have two new Supreme
00:07Court nominees.
00:08Can you talk to the thinking behind that?
00:12I got to be mindful here.
00:14It was said in a campaign event, and he certainly was answering that in, you know, as it relates
00:26to the 2024 elections.
00:27I'm going to be super mindful.
00:29I'm going to allow you all to do, you know, to do the work on this and to kind of figure
00:35out who he was talking about, what he meant.
00:38But look, I'll say this.
00:43Next Monday, a week from today, we are going to be sadly commemorating the Dobbs decision.
00:51Two years ago, a week from today, we saw what the Supreme Court was able to do.
00:57They were able to overturn Roe v. Wade, which was the law of the land for almost 50 years,
01:03which gave women the ability to make a decision on their own body, gave women the ability
01:10to make important, critical, difficult decisions on their health care.
01:15That was taken away.
01:16And when that was taken away, we saw contraception is now under attack.
01:21We see now IVF is now under attack.
01:23We saw what Republicans did just last week.
01:26And there are freedoms that are now under attack because of what the Supreme Court was
01:32able to do by just overturning something that was the law of the land for almost 50 years.
01:38And we know that happened because of what the former president did, which was appoint
01:46justices who he believed would be part of overturning Roe v. Wade.
01:52And they did just that.
01:53Disliking what the current justices do is different than getting the opportunity to
01:59nominate two new justices.
02:01But I think you're, just hopefully you're seeing how I'm trying to connect the two.
02:07It was said back in 2016 that we got to be really mindful on how we move forward here.
02:14And what happened in the last administration is that the former president was able to appoint
02:21three justices.
02:22And look what happened to Dobbs decision happened, right?
02:25So there is history here because I can't speak to 2024.
02:29I'm speaking to the past and what occurred.
02:32And next Monday, we are going to be commemorating a day where the Supreme Court justice overturned
02:40a constitutional right that was around for almost 50 years that has created 21 states
02:46now that have banned abortion.
02:49We're talking about 27 million women who are of reproductive rights, reproductive health,
02:56who now can't make that decision for themselves.
02:59You have doctors, if they performed health care for women that relates to reproductive
03:06health care, they could get arrested.
03:08I mean, that is where we are right now.
03:11That's why I'm using the past to try and help answer the question that you're asking of
03:15me.
03:16I'm not going to dive into who the president was speaking of, but you see a pattern here
03:20is what I'm trying to speak to.