Posted on 08/04/2024 6:24:35 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
President (and Supreme Court Chief Justice) William Howard Taft once said, “Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.”
But not if Joe Biden has his way. Indeed, both the president and court as we know it could be gone.
In a failed attempt to save his nomination, Biden offered to “reform” the court by imposing an 18-year term limit that would jettison the three most senior conservative justices.
With only six months left in his presidency, Biden’s efforts are likely to fail, but, unfortunately, could set the stage for activists under a Harris administration in seeking to change the court forever.
For more than 50 years, Biden staunchly refused to play politics with the Supreme Court and support calls for “reforms” from the left of his party.
For a politician who has long been criticized for changing positions with the polls on issues from abortion to criminal justice to gun rights, the court was one of the few areas of true principle for Biden.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
So... term limits for Senators and Congressmen?
I would state that Joe NEVER had any principles that we would recognize.
The founders set the SC up so it would be protected from tyrants like Herr Biden. Let’s hope and pray it’s protected enough.
FTA——AP’s NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found 67% of Americans, including 82% of Democrats and 57% of Republicans, support a proposal to set finite terms for justices.
But there were few law professors and even fewer Democratic members clamoring for term limits until conservatives secured a stable majority on the court. Then, suddenly, the court had to be “reformed” without delay.
It is no accident that the first three justices who would be term-limited off the court are conservatives: Clarence Thomas (after 33 years on the court), Chief Justice John Roberts (after 19 years) and Justice Samuel Alito (after 18 years).
SEE ALSO NYP link
Biden’s illegitimate ‘reforms’ are a nakedly political
bid to tilt the Supreme Court on his way out....(to make Jill stop nagging?).
Joe has been for Joe—and Hunter’s blow.
There are rumors that Alito is considering retirement. A big reason why Kamala needs to lose. Dems are screeching even louder about Thomas.
“For more than 50 years, Biden staunchly refused to play politics with the Supreme Court…”
Utter BS - he sat on the Judiciary Committee & was at the center of taking out Robert Bork plus the “high tech lynching” of Clarence Thomas.
SCOTUS nominations had been political before Bork. Proposing term limits is a huge escalation. I never liked Biden, but in the Judiciary Committee he cast doubts on Anita Hill’s accusations against Thomas (maybe he felt guilty about Bork). I think Kamala is even worse than Biden, although they agree most of the time.
Xiden never had any principles, honor, decency or integrity to begin with at all.
Exactly. Now, with his mental state, it is basically what ever policy his handlers want him to support.
Start with 2 terms for Senators, and 3 for the House. Do that first, then move on.
Biden is an empty locker in which the left stores is favorite hobby horses in the hope that someday the American people would be stupid enough to dig them out and embrace them. That is all there is to this.
I absolutely second that emotion. It's spot on. Biden is a steaming pile of pig's dung.
“For more than 50 years, Biden staunchly refused to play politics with the Supreme Court “
Well, that’s just false. Anyone who remembers the Clarence Thomas hearings that Biden conducted should remember vicious, shameless and dishonest politics by Joe.
I think Turley is right that SCOTUS was more protected in the past, but that was not the result of virtuous Dem senators. Biden voted NO on Thomas's confirmation.
What does Turley mean by "If Congress has this authority...?" He's the so-called Constitutional Scholar, doesn't he know?
The Constitution says that the Justices "shall hold their Offices during good Behavior." How can that be changed legislatively? Change has to be via amendment.
-PJ
None of which his puppeteers wants will happen.
Sloe Joe’s mentality has ALWAYS BEEN: “There they go, and I must follow! For, I am their leader, I think!”
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