Biden Debuts Radical Scheme Designed To Help Democrats Pack The Supreme Court:
Biden used a publication known for smearing Republican-nominated justices to further Democrats’ SCOTUS delegitimization campaign.
The regime with the most unconstitutional track record in modern history is seeking to destroy the only functioning institution left in America by completely overhauling it.
President Joe Biden, with the help of The Washington Post, advanced his public delegitimization campaign against the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday when he introduced a radical plan that would fulfill his party’s yearslong goal of destroying the judicial branch’s ruling body.
The man recently deemed too incompetent by the powers that be in his party to run for a second term condemned the court’s recent decision stating that former President Donald Trump has “at least presumptive immunity” for all “official acts” and once again lamented justices’ 2022 decision to do away with Roe v. Wade.
In Biden’s latest blatant lawfare attack on Democrats’ top political opponent, he used these examples from a routinely unanimous court as a springboard to argue for amending the U.S. Constitution so that “there is no immunity for crimes a former president committed while in office.” The First Family’s history of evading accountability suggests the “No President Is Above the Law” pledge would presumably not affect the patriarch of the Biden family’s international influence-peddling scheme.
Biden’s partisan mudslinging didn’t stop there.
After amplifying the Democrat-manufactured ethics scandal and false attacks linking justices to the Capitol chaos on January 6, 2021, Biden proposed in the pages of a publication known for smearing Republican-nominated justices and their families the enactment of “more predictable and less arbitrary” term limits for members of the high court.
“It would reduce the chance that any single presidency radically alters the makeup of the court for generations to come. 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,” the Biden article argues.
The president did not explain exactly how he planned to do so. The White House’s eager endorsement of a 2023 Democrat-led bill to enact 18-year term limits and forced retirement for senior justices like John Roberts and Clarence Thomas, however, suggests the Biden administration plans to use its connections in Congress to do his bidding.
Lastly, Biden expressed hope to permanently sustain slanted assaults on law-abiding Republican-nominated justices by “calling for a binding code of conduct for the Supreme Court.”
“The court’s current voluntary ethics code is weak and self-enforced,” Biden said, echoing the words of repeat SCOTUS smearers Rep. Jamie Raskin and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. “Justices should be required to disclose gifts, refrain from public political activity and recuse themselves from cases in which they or their spouses have financial or other conflicts of interest.” --->READ MORE HERE
Biden’s Supreme Court Reform Plan Is Doomed to Fail:
There is no reality in which Congress would pass the constitutional amendments required to enact the president’s proposals.
When President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced his Supreme Court reform package in 1937, he had just won reelection with more than 60% of the vote. His party held supermajorities in both chambers of Congress. By contrast, President Joe Biden’s court reform plan comes at the nadir of his political power — as a lame-duck president forced to drop out of the race for reelection, with a one-vote majority in the Senate and a minority in the House.
When you consider that FDR’s reform plan failed despite his being the height of his popularity, that gives you a hint of what is likely to happen ultimately to Biden’s. There is no reality where Congress and the country would pass the constitutional amendments required to enact it. However, Roosevelt’s plan did have an impact. And Biden’s may as well.
Let’s start with Biden’s ideas. They are reasonable, so far as they go. His first proposal is for a constitutional amendment overruling Trump v. United States, the July Supreme Court decision that established extensive criminal immunity for a president’s official acts.
The decision is wrong and deserves to be repudiated by amendment. But that would take support from two-thirds of the House and Senate and three-quarters of the states — a level of consensus that’s impossible to imagine.
Biden’s second proposal is an 18-year term limit for Supreme Court justices, structured so that a new justice is appointed every two years. This isn’t crazy. Although some great justices have served much longer — like Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was on the court from 1902 to 1932 — 18 years is more than enough for justices to make their mark and to provide continuity for the court and the legal system.
The regularity would take away some of the extreme arbitrariness of the current system, in which justices either die on the bench, retire because of infirmity, or choose the moment to step away based on which party is in power.
Yet the Constitution says that the justices serve “during good behavior.” The current Supreme Court would unquestionably understand that phrase to mean “unless impeached and removed.” In practice, that means the term limits also require a constitutional amendment, one that has about as much chance of being ratified as an amendment overturning the immunity ruling.
That leaves Biden’s final proposal. He argues for “a binding code of conduct for the Supreme Court” to replace its current voluntary code, which the court adopted less than a year ago. Many court critics believe that Congress could enact legislation that would make the code binding, and it’s (maybe) conceivable that the razor-thin Democratic majority might. The trouble is that a plausible argument can be made that Congress lacks the constitutional authority to bind the Supreme Court, which is a coequal branch of government. --->READ MORE HERE
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