President Biden endorsed sweeping changes to the Supreme Court on Monday, calling for 18-year term limits for the justices and a binding, enforceable ethics code for the high court.
He is also pushing for a constitutional amendment that would prohibit blanket immunity for presidents, a rebuke of the Supreme Court after it ruled this month that former president Donald Trump is immune from prosecution for official acts.
For Biden, who has long resisted calls to reform the Supreme Court, the announcement Monday marked a major shift in his posture toward one of America’s three branches of government. Since assuming the presidency, the Supreme Court has veered sharply to the right — overturning Roe v. Wade, ending affirmative action in college admissions, weakening federal agencies’ power by overturning a 40-year decision and striking down Biden’s student-loan forgiveness program.
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@eXecutiveStorkDemocrat2yrs2Y
When the "founding fathers" ratified the constitution the life expectancy was 50 years. Today it's closer to 80. Of the first 10 justices only 2 stayed on the court longer than 14 years. If they knew then that people would routinely live to 80+ and that they would stay on the court until death, they most assuredly would have added term limits to their tenure.
@Pl4tformCraneRepublican2yrs2Y
Life expectancy is a weird number. It includes child mortality. But as soon as you pass the age or 15, you're basically set for 70s, even centuries ago. Especially when you're talking about easy jobs like being a politician or judge.
So I don't think you can point at that
Better late than never, but just barely. I’ll never understand how Dems failed to do this when the writing was on the wall 3 years ago and they had the numbers to pass it.
@ParliamentDanDemocrat2yrs2Y
Would it be simpler to just nominate 4 additional Scotus than seek an amendment to challenge the decision that placed one person above the other?
@CivilRightsRalphGreen2yrs2Y
What?
@ParliamentDanDemocrat2yrs2Y
Nominate 4 Scotus rather than get 2/3rds of congress and states to ratify a constitutional amendment?
Sooo, every time things don’t go democrats way, we should just change the rules?
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