President Joe Biden is unveiling a long-awaited proposal for changes at the U.S. Supreme Court, calling on Congress to establish term limits and an ethics code for the court’s nine justices. He also is pressing lawmakers to ratify a constitutional amendment that would limit presidential immunity.
The White House on Monday detailed the contours of Biden’s court proposal, one that appears to have little chance of being approved by a closely divided Congress with just 99 days to go before Election Day.
Still, Democrats hope it will help to focus voters as they consider their choices in a tight election. The likely Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, has sought to frame her race against Republican former President Donald Trump as “a choice between freedom and chaos.”
The White House is looking to tap into the growing outrage among Democrats about the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, issuing opinions that overturned landmark decisions on abortion rights and federal regulatory powers that stood for decades.
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Excerpt from www.thegatewaypundit.com
On Monday, the Biden-Harris regime rolled out perhaps its most extreme policy yet – a fundamental transformation of the nation’s highest court that seeks to neuter it root and branch of political independence, converting it into yet another cog that would irremediably carry out the marching orders of the Democratic Party’s leftmost flank.
Biden’s radical plan, which he claimed would help “strengthen the guardrails of democracy,” is anything but small-d democratic: it amounts to a power-grab by the Executive Branch, intended to eradicate separation of powers, and guarantee the Supreme Court marches to the increasingly totalitarian dictates of the regnant political order…
Among the radical reforms proposed, which come straight from Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky’s playbooks, include a dramatic “restructuring” that would end presidential immunity, full stop, allowing the Biden regime to carry out its weaponized lawfare against President Trump and his loyal supporters unencumbered by checks and balances.
Moreover, Biden and Harris have endorsed “term limits” for Supreme Court justices
and, perhaps most insidiously of all, want to hold the justices to “binding ethics rules” – which would presumably allow tyrannical presidents to switch out a rogue justice who ruled antithetically to their desired policy, such as on abortion or election integrity.
Biden, Harris Endorse Supreme Court ‘Reform’ Bill That Would Push Out Conservative Justices
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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday endorsed a bill that limits Supreme Court justices to 18-year terms and allows presidents to add a new justice every two years—effectively allowing the Biden administration to push out the Court’s conservative majority.
“I support a system in which the president would appoint a justice every two years to spend 18 years in active service on the Supreme Court,” Biden wrote in a Washington Post op-ed, endorsing the Supreme Court Biennial Appointments and Term Limits Act. Harris, the new presumptive Democratic nominee, also supported the legislation in a Monday statement.
The bill would effectively enable the executive branch to shift the Court from its 6-3 conservative majority to a 5-4 progressive majority by replacing Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Clarence Thomas with new appointees, the Dispatch‘s John McCormack reported. Thomas has served for 32 years, while Roberts hit the 18-year mark last September.
The bill, introduced by Senate Democrats in October, states that a replaced justice would take “senior status” and sit out of appellate jurisdiction cases but “retain the authority to hear original jurisdiction cases and to exercise all other powers of the office.” If passed, the legislation would, according to Biden, “reduce the chance that any single presidency radically alters the makeup of the Court for generations to come” and help “restore the public’s faith in the Supreme Court.”
Biden Says Speaker Mike Johnson Is ‘Dead on Arrival’ After GOP Leader Vows to Kill SCOTUS Reform
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Lame duck President Joe Biden lashed out at House Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday after Johnson indicated Biden’s plan to change the rules for appointing Supreme Court justices has no chance of passing the House.
As noted in a video posted to X after Biden arrived in Austin, Texas, a reporter called out, “Mr. President, House Speaker Johnson says your Supreme Court reform is ‘dead on arrival.’ What is your reaction, sir?”
After being told a second time that Johnson made the comment, Biden said, “I think that’s what he is, adding moments later, “That he is — dead on arrival,” according to the White House official transcript.
REPORTER: “Speaker Johnson says [Supreme Court reform] is dead on arrival.”
BIDEN: “That’s what he is — he is — dead on arrival.”
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