Biden unveils plan to overhaul Supreme Court

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(ASSOCIATED PRESS) President Joe Biden has unveiled a long-awaited proposal for changes at the U.S. Supreme Court, calling on Congress to establish term limits and an enforceable ethics code for the court’s nine justices. He’s also pressing lawmakers to ratify a constitutional amendment limiting 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’ll help focus voters as they consider their choices in a tight election. The likely Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, who has sought to frame her race against Republican ex-President Donald Trump as “a choice between freedom and chaos,” quickly endorsed the Biden proposal.

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.

Liberals also have expressed dismay over revelations about what they say are questionable relationships and decisions by some members of the conservative wing of the court that suggest their impartiality is compromised.

コメント (21)
  • Term limits for Congress and Senate. Get rid of Shumer and Lyndsey. That's real progress.
  • @jgedutis
    Someone who has been in office for 50 years calling for 18 year term limits in the supreme court is beyond ridiculous
  • Good luck with all that shit. The House will never go for it. It's dead on arrival.
  • Why worry about the Supreme Court when your colleagues are involved in insider trading?? Much more of an issue.
  • Ask Shumer has he ever accepted gifts or trips. Or bribery. 😅
  • But wait, I thought president Trump was going to destroy the constitution and democracy?
  • @shb4200
    He doesn't have authority to reform the supreme court. And term limits for congress
  • @bikeradam
    They can't stand the fact that one of them escaped the plantation mind set 😅
  • @hauntsforhope
    Great idea. Extend those ethics to every person in an elected position.
  • @jabe3753
    Don't waste your breath on this stupid idea. It will never happen.
  • How come they don’t start arresting the people in the house and the Senate for insider trading same thing
  • @DavidsFelecia
    Well they need to do the same with term limits in congress and the senate.
  • I’m old enough to remember when Joe was insisting it was a threat to demcracy to question the justice system after they got DT convcted on poltically motivated charges 🙃
  • How about the real problems. Crime, border, inflation, corruption... not necessarily in that order.
  • @kingaj06
    One branch of government can not overhaul another branch government thats why there is a power balance between all three branches