President Biden is seriously considering legislative proposals that would dramatically alter the Supreme Court, including imposing term limits and an enforceable code of ethics on the justices, according to a person familiar with the ongoing discussions.
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Biden’s proposals to overhaul the court, which could be unveiled in the coming weeks, would need congressional approval, something that is likely to be a long shot given Republican control of the House and the slim Democratic majority in the Senate.
The president is also considering calling for a constitutional amendment that could limit the broad presidential immunity that the court’s conservative majority backed at the end of its term this year, the person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the president’s deliberations have not been made public.
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Biden has called the court’s ruling a “dangerous precedent” that means “that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do.” But an amendment would face even greater challenges, requiring two-thirds votes in Congress or at a convention called for by two-thirds of the states, followed by ratification by three-fourths of the state legislatures.
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President Biden moving to reportedly impose term limits in a close election only reinforces the view that politics not principle are again driving his decisions. If the President had a ten-point margin, the Supreme Court would likely be safe for another four years.
Paging Merrick Garland, will you be applying the bribery charges you successfully brought against Menendez to Clarence Thomas?
No?
Maybe sedition charges then?
No?
"The charge of the light in the loafers Brigade" maybe.
This is lamentation fodder for Libs - "but he was on the verge of real change till the evil Republicans foiled his plans!"
He'll get nowhere with a gridlocked Congress
When we win, remember this when we remake the courts and come for Wickard v. Filburn. There is no reason to stop, they will go as far as they want, we can tear this all up back to the 30s.
Need to do term limits and enforceable ethics codes for Congress first tough guy.
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