Posted on 07/29/2024 6:48:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Monday that there is “zero chance” President Joe Biden can impose term limits on Supreme Court justices.
Biden is focusing on implementing Supreme Court reform, including term limits and an ethics code, as his presidency comes to a close, according to a White House fact sheet published on Monday. Jarrett said on “Fox & Friends” that Biden’s proposed reforms are “unconstitutional” and the president is only pushing them for reforms for electoral reasons.
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Gregg Jarrett Says There’s ‘Zero Chance’ Biden Can Put Term Limits On Supreme Court Justices pic.twitter.com/K7L0O9TK1n
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 29, 2024
“Like many of Joe Biden’s ideas, most of it is unconstitutional, Steve. And the Democrats cannot simply pass a law imposing term limits on justices because life terms are embedded in the Constitution,” Jarrett told host Steve Doocy. “So, it requires amending the founding document, which is such a high bar, that it has zero chance.”
Biden wants Supreme Court justices to have eighteen-year terms instead of lifetime appointments to make it so one presidency cannot have disproportionate influence, according to the fact sheet.
“Joe’s other idea of imposing ethical controls on justices, as you point out, Steve, that is a blatant violation of the separation of powers principle,” the legal analyst added. “So all of this is just electoral pablum for Democrats.”
The president is calling on Congress to pass ethics rules that mandate justices “disclose gifts, refrain from public political activity, and recuse themselves from cases in which they or their spouses have financial or other conflicts of interest,” according to the fact sheet.
Biden has also pushed plans to forgive student loan debt during his presidency despite the Supreme Court striking downone of his proposed programs in June 2023.
“I find it interesting that Joe Biden has spent decades opposing the very kind of radical reforms that he now advocates. And it’s also pretty amusing, Steve, an 81-year-old president wants to age out younger high court justices that are a lot more sentient than Joe Biden is. Biden knows he can’t do this,” Jarrett said. “But, like many of the things he proposes, he does it anyway to troll for votes.”
“Remember, most of this has to be done by constitutional amendment. To even propose an amendment, you have to have two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress or states in constitutional conventions and once you get past that hurdle, you got to have ratification by three quarters of the states,” he said. “That is impossible. Sorry.”
He’ll just write an Executive Order.
The Supreme Court will strike it down ,LOL
Ask Obama for his phone and pen. That will do it Joe.
Executive Orders have no authority outside the Executive branch. But rank and file Democrats apparently don’t know and don’t care. It sounds good to the ignoramasses.....................
in record time.
Red meat for the rabid Dems.
60-70% of the country has no idea how their own government works...
I don’t want the US to fall into a one-party state because Virginia Thomas as a liberated woman decided to exercise her constitutional right of petition.
The justices are there to protect the Constitution. That requires unending vigilence. More is at stake than who pays for a $10,000 car repair job.
Red FAKE-meat for the rabid Dems.....................
Probably bug meat.
He’ll stack the court. All he needs is the Senate.
Supreme Court justices are elected for life....I thought. Can a president just pass an executive order & relieve them of duty? If so, there are definitely some changes that need to be made.
And the House to enlarge the SCOTUS to 11+...............
The Supreme Court hears a wide variety of complex cases.
It benefits from highly experienced judges.
No, it would require a constitutional amendment and that ain’t likely. This is Just Biden’s and the Dems’ wet dream..................
This is all about stirring up the masses; more emotional gaslighting for the election in 100 days.
When term limits and strict, enforceable ethics rules are instituted for Congress, then I might barely consider the same for the Supreme Court.
Never say never, especially if Harris takes the White House and the Dems take all of Congress. Besides, even if he doesn’t, bills like this will be used to whip up his thugs to start threatening the Supreme Court Justices again to try to threaten them back “into line.”
There was zero chance authorities declared that Maduro would win the Venezuelan election, but he did.
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