Politico
In a meeting with the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee in early February, President Joe Biden said he wanted a Supreme Court candidate with a judicial philosophy “that suggests that there are unenumerated rights in the Constitution, and all the amendments mean something, including the Ninth Amendment.”
Among those dissecting Biden’s comments, the president’s namecheck of the Ninth Amendment caused some confusion: Why was Biden singling out one specific amendment, and what was so important about the Ninth one?