Joe Biden’s issues going into 2024

Unemployment under Mr. Biden is the lowest in ages, and the economy is rebounding. He is supporting women’s reproductive rights and so much more. Mr. Teixeira criticizes Mr. Biden for moving to the left, but these policies don’t need a name, since they are just good for the country and our battle to preserve democracy. Yes, I agree that we will most likely be stuck with Donald Trump again as the GOP candidate. I’m sorry the Republicans are loyal to someone who wants retribution against his perceived enemies and tells how he will gut democracy by declaring he will be a dictator and hire only loyalists if he should win. He will drill, drill, drill and continue the fearmongering and cruel treatment of immigrants. This is the most important election of our lifetime. I’m so glad for Mr. Biden.

Joanie Grosfeld, Kensington

In his insightful Jan. 4 op-ed, Ruy Teixeira mentioned “radical policy options” promoted by many of President Biden’s 2020 Democratic rivals. The list included Medicare-for-all, the Green New Deal and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

But he left out perhaps the most radical policy proposal: expanding the size of the Supreme Court, a policy that could transform the court from a check on the abuse of power by an authoritarian president into a rubber stamp.

President Biden wisely opposed “court-packing” because if one party did it, another party could retaliate in kind.

But in 2024, Mr. Biden and other candidates might well be asked where they stand on the proposed “Keep Nine” constitutional amendment, introduced in Congress by a Democrat and since backed by 200 members of Congress, that would preserve the current number of nine justices.

A candidate who claims to oppose court expansion but won’t back a measure to ensure it never happens might look like a future “court-packer” to swing voters.

Paul Summers, Nashville

The writer, a former Tennessee attorney general, is chair of the Keep Nine Coalition.