Posted on 07/27/2024 1:21:19 PM PDT by algore
President Joe Biden is reportedly planning to unveil a dramatic Supreme Court reform next week in an attempt to overhaul the high court.
Two people familiar with the matter told Politico that the president is likely to endorse establishing term limits for justices, and bring in a code of ethics.
The 81-year-old is expected to push for an amendment that would limit immunity for presidents and other officeholders.
His amendment would come directly after the court ruled that presidents are shielded from prosecution for officials acts, in a case brought by Donald Trump.
It is said that Biden will call for the overhaul while on a trip to Texas, where he is set to speak at the Lyndon Baines Johnson presidential library in Austin.
The White House declined to comment, referring to remarks earlier this week from his press secretary that he believes the SC should be 'held to a high ethics'
After the court ruled on Trump's immunity case, Biden called the decision 'dangerous' and said it would embolden Trump if the Republican is reelected.
He warned that the conservative-leaning court 'fundamentally changed' a bedrock principle of the nation.
Biden said: 'This nation was founded on the principle that there are no kings in America.
'Today's decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do.
'This is a fundamentally new principle and it's a dangerous precedent. The only limits will be self-imposed by the president alone.'
The Court's 6-3 ruling practically insured that Trump wouldn't face another trial before the November election.
Biden called the decision a continued 'attack' on 'wide range of long established legal principles,' pointing to the reversal of Roe v. Wade and controversial decisions on civil and voting rights.
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Chances of that senile old fart amending the Constitution to fit his radical agenda?
Zero.
His political power is gone.
Harris is taking all the oxygen in the room.
Jotato: “There are no kings in America. Therefore I’m going to cancel one of the three branches of government that I don’t like.”
No kings?? After they just crowned Kamala?
Whatever, Obama and ValJar (and whoever else is really doing this - Susan Rice and others.)
God willing, your days to continue destroying our Constitutional Republic are numbered.
Xiden is such a hypocrite.
Another article mocking pedojoe’s senility wish of pretending he is important
He knows he can’t because he will use Presidential immunity himself very soon...
This is a campaign issue so Democrats do not have to talk about the border, economy, etc
He’s been in “government” for 50 years. Why didn’t he do this when the Court was liberal for decades? It’s a puzzle, I tell you, a puzzle!
It’s a rare liberal who has ethics.
However much you think you hate the demonrat “progressive” left, you don’t hate them near enough.
Listen, you dementia-riddled assassination-happy self-crapping senile twatmonkey, take your endorsements and plans and shove it in your icecream-hole.
But they will try to pack the court. Roosevelt got away with this.
They are mad because they owned the SCOTUS for decades. They don't own it anymore. We actually have some semblance of checks and balances now.
As if the SOB hasn’t caused enough damage to this Republic he wants to continue it until his last day in office.
This is Obama trying to move the Overton Window.
By executive order?
I'm just upset because the real presidential criminal -- Obama -- got away with everything scot-free.
He prosecutes political opponents but they write this slop. The press is evil.
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