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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A Dem PR get out the vote strategy.
Their Lefty Dem Media agents will
faint with excitement over a DOA PR move .
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.
Yawn, this is political theater. He can do a damn thing.
Can he do this?
Will he be angry Biden, creepy-whisper Biden, or a confused “...whatever” Biden when he announces it?
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.
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...
I didn’t notice the word “amendment”, the fool is dain bread.
I think only Congress or a convention of States can propose amendments to the Constitution.🤔
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.
Correct.
Biden didn’t dream all this up on his own. Find out who operates his puppet-strings.
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.
Eff you to Biden, his hag spouse, his handlers, his enablers, and his constituents!!!! YOU bassturds are the TRUE threat to our “Democracy”
And if you believe telekinesis is real, raise MY hand please.
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.
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.)
Raise your hand if you think Joe did any of this thinking
Most likely Kamala
Yes, this has the fingerprints of
Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama
I see the Constitution is still not a stumbling block for our prez.
Yawn
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