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Biden set to unveil major Supreme Court reform plans next week
Daily Mail ^

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Jonty30
Can he do this?

He can propose anything he wants. He can propose it until he is blue in the face. But nothing is going to happen.

Term limits for the federal judiciary would require a constitutional amendment. He'll need two thirds of both Houses of Congress to propose it to the states for ratification. That support doesn't exist.

Then he needs three fourths of the states to ratify. That support doesn't exist.

Biden is just engaging in political masturbation.

41 posted on 07/27/2024 1:40:14 PM PDT by Publius
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To: McGruff
By executive order?

Why not? Who's going to stop Obama, Jarrett, and Rice?

42 posted on 07/27/2024 1:41:00 PM PDT by Lazamataz (If you are upset the bullet missed, contact me immediately. I'll make sure your bullet doesn't.)
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To: cdnerds
This is DOA

Sorry, it's arriving elsewhere and there's a way. IOW, the pulpit is useful.

43 posted on 07/27/2024 1:41:37 PM PDT by aspasia
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To: Jonty30

“Can he do this?”

Can you read the article?


44 posted on 07/27/2024 1:41:46 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: algore
The Democrat strategy is always if they lose two out of three, they demand three out of five.

Now that they're losing six out of nine in the Supreme Court, the Democrats demanding seven out of thirteen.

-PJ

45 posted on 07/27/2024 1:42:05 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: j.havenfarm
I’m surprised at how tone deaf the democrats have gotten. They know they won’t come anywhere near the 2/3 required to get amendments out of Congress, so this is merely performative. Do they really think Joe Sixpack gives a damn?

They put the idea out there. It may take years, or decades, for it to come to fruition.

It doesn't always work out though. They did it with the ERA, and with slave reparations. The story will never really be over with those, however.

46 posted on 07/27/2024 1:42:26 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Publius
That support doesn't exist.

More support out there than for the temperance movement.

47 posted on 07/27/2024 1:43:39 PM PDT by aspasia
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To: j.havenfarm

Oh, I forgot. They did it with same-sex marriage, and that came to pass. There are other things they did it with too. Amnesty and open borders and “no human is illegal,” I guess.


48 posted on 07/27/2024 1:43:48 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: j.havenfarm

Robert butt Hur?


49 posted on 07/27/2024 1:44:14 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Roosevelt got away with this.

No, he didn't. He proposed it, but it set off a firestorm in Congress.

Vice President Garner explained it to FDR like this: "Well, Cap'n, do you want it with the bark on or the bark off?" Garner was referring to a hickory switch used for discipline.

50 posted on 07/27/2024 1:47:15 PM PDT by Publius
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To: algore

And by ‘over haul’ they mean to stack it with their judges


51 posted on 07/27/2024 1:47:19 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: cdnerds

A constitutional amendment is required because the structure and laws governing the judiciary are mandated by and enumerated in the Constitution. A Constitutional amendment would require approval by and of two-thirds of all of the 50 state legislatures (34 of them) before becoming law. The process is complex and literally takes years. It’s NOT approval by two-thirds of the sitting members of Congress that gets this kind of thing done. These people are truly clueless. And they hold elective office?


52 posted on 07/27/2024 1:47:27 PM PDT by 4Runner
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To: McGruff
By executive order?

Only by a constitutional amendment.

53 posted on 07/27/2024 1:50:05 PM PDT by Publius
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To: algore

2/3 majority of the house and senate in 35 of the states need to approve this. Likely chance is never gonna happen.


54 posted on 07/27/2024 1:50:28 PM PDT by bobrlbob
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To: algore

I get no end of amusement whenever POTATUS tries to set up new rules for SCOTUS.


55 posted on 07/27/2024 1:50:42 PM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Yep. A distraction.


56 posted on 07/27/2024 1:50:58 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: Lazamataz

Come on, Laz, you know he needs a constitutional amendment, and it ain’t gonna fly.


57 posted on 07/27/2024 1:51:09 PM PDT by Publius
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To: 4Runner

Ratification of a constitutional amendment requires approval by 3/4 of the states (38) not 2/3 (34).


58 posted on 07/27/2024 1:51:34 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I am free at last)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Minn. Senator Mondale got the Senate filibuster changed from 2/3 to 3/5....


59 posted on 07/27/2024 1:52:34 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: 4Runner
A Constitutional amendment would require approval by and of two-thirds of all of the 50 state legislatures (34 of them) before becoming law.

Incorrect. It would require ratification by three fourths of the states (38).

60 posted on 07/27/2024 1:53:33 PM PDT by Publius
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