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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: algore

A Dem PR get out the vote strategy.
Their Lefty Dem Media agents will
faint with excitement over a DOA PR move .


81 posted on 07/27/2024 2:04:23 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: algore
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.

Does the idiot not realize that the Supreme Court can find his effort to corrupt it, unconstitutional.

82 posted on 07/27/2024 2:04:29 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: algore

Yawn, this is political theater. He can do a damn thing.


83 posted on 07/27/2024 2:04:57 PM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: Jonty30

Can he do this?


Of course he can do it. But to term-limit Justices (or Federal Judges for that matter) and to overturn SCOTUS’s immunity ruling, Joe will have to get 2/3rds of each house to pass it and convince 3/4ths of the state legislatures to ratify them. Pretty tall order for a lame duck whose time has passed him by.

Will he be angry Biden, creepy-whisper Biden, or a confused “...whatever” Biden when he announces it?


84 posted on 07/27/2024 2:06:14 PM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: aspasia

And what way would that be? I don’t see any way this passes 2/3’s of each house AND the states for the constitution to be amended, which is what is required.


85 posted on 07/27/2024 2:06:18 PM PDT by Mama Shawna
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To: Jonty30

No. It’ll have to go through congress and the GOP will stop it. Though you can bet they’ll try it if they have all 3 houses.

Pretty much it’s a lame duck move. Like the GOP pushing through legislation to revoke Obamacare... until they had all 3 houses...


86 posted on 07/27/2024 2:07:05 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: higgmeister

I didn’t notice the word “amendment”, the fool is dain bread.


87 posted on 07/27/2024 2:08:39 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Jonty30

I think only Congress or a convention of States can propose amendments to the Constitution.🤔


88 posted on 07/27/2024 2:12:00 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Publius

Biden knows this won’t make it through Congress right now, but every time some new revelation comes out about corruption on the Supreme Court, Dems will make sure they remind everyone that “President Biden proposed an amendment to address this, but Republicans blocked it to protect the criminals.”

The ads write themselves.


89 posted on 07/27/2024 2:12:10 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king (Just a Texas Playboy at heart!)
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To: BiteYourSelf

Correct.


90 posted on 07/27/2024 2:13:46 PM PDT by Publius
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To: algore

Biden didn’t dream all this up on his own. Find out who operates his puppet-strings.


91 posted on 07/27/2024 2:16:03 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Fight! Fight! Fight! God Bless America!--President Donald Trump, Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024)
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To: j.havenfarm
Two people familiar with the matter told Politico that the president is likely to endorse establishing term limits for justices

They would have to amend the Constitution to get this changed. And a Constitutional Convention would have to be convened, and then two-thirds of the state legislatures of 50 states (34 of them) would have to ratify.

The same way the Constitution was changed for the presidency in 1951 to two terms maximum. By constitutional convention and state ratification. NOT BY AN ACT OF CONGRESS!

It's unbelievable that elected officials at the federal level are conveniently avoiding or trying to leapfrog past the 50-state legislature ratification requirement and are talking like "boyz in da' hood" about American jurisprudence and the separation of powers as a matter the currently elected Congress by itself can affect.

The reason the founders in their wisdom gave the USSC life terms or "continuance on good behavior" was to insulate them from the influences of constantly changing political winds in the electoral movements of the legislative and executive branches.

92 posted on 07/27/2024 2:16:37 PM PDT by 4Runner
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To: algore

Eff you to Biden, his hag spouse, his handlers, his enablers, and his constituents!!!! YOU bassturds are the TRUE threat to our “Democracy”


93 posted on 07/27/2024 2:17:38 PM PDT by dadgum (“”)
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To: lurk

And if you believe telekinesis is real, raise MY hand please.


94 posted on 07/27/2024 2:19:46 PM PDT by desertsolitaire (Perhaps the Great Ape Lawgiver in the series Planet of the Apes was correct in his view of humans?)
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To: algore

With many democrats about to lose their seat if they flow with him wouldn’t count on him getting much help.

Why back a guy that was fired from his job by his own party.


95 posted on 07/27/2024 2:21:45 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: 4Runner
And a Constitutional Convention would have to be convened, and then two-thirds of the state legislatures of 50 states (34 of them) would have to ratify.

Incorrect again! An amendment may be proposed by Congress. The amendment proposal would require approval of two thirds of the House and two thirds of the Senate. Ratification would require three fourths (38) of the states, either by state legislatures or by state ratification conventions as directed by Congress when the amendment proposal was sent to the states for ratification by Joint Resolution of Congress. Please read Article V.

The same way the Constitution was changed for the presidency in 1951 to two terms maximum. By constitutional convention and state ratification. NOT BY AN ACT OF CONGRESS!

Wrong, wrong, wrong! It was done by both Houses of Congress approving it by at least a two thirds margin. There has never been a constitutional convention held under the terms of Article V. (The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was held under the terms of the Articles of Confederation.)

96 posted on 07/27/2024 2:24:24 PM PDT by Publius
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To: lurk

Raise your hand if you think Joe did any of this thinking

Most likely Kamala


97 posted on 07/27/2024 2:24:44 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: antidemoncrat; Lazamataz

Yes, this has the fingerprints of

Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama


98 posted on 07/27/2024 2:25:30 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: algore

I see the Constitution is still not a stumbling block for our prez.


99 posted on 07/27/2024 2:29:21 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: algore

Yawn


100 posted on 07/27/2024 2:29:46 PM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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