President Joe Biden is preparing to support changes to the Supreme Court that he hopes will energize the Democratic Party's left-wing base as his re-election campaign continues to falter.
The Washington Post reported On Tuesday, Biden will soon bring back term limits for Supreme Court justices and a new “code of ethics” that will apply to the judiciary.
He will stop, however, from calling to expand the Court.
This might be a matter of policy rather than a matter of principle.
Democrats once hoped to use their temporary majorities in both houses of Congress in 2021 and 2022 to expand and “pack” the Court with enough liberal justices to outnumber the six Republican-nominated members of the Court.
The likely prospect of losing the Senate, given the large number of Democratic seats up for grabs in November, makes the idea of expanding the Court less appealing, as Republicans could block left-leaning candidates.
The publication reported:
President Biden is finalizing plans to pass major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposed legislation to establish term limits for the courts and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.
He is also weighing whether to seek a constitutional amendment to remove broad immunity for presidents and other constitutional officials, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.
The announcement would mark a major shift for Biden, a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has long resisted calls to reform the high court.
After the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, which tilted the Court toward a 5-4 Republican-appointed majority, left-leaning Democrats began talking about packing the Court.
The idea gained traction during the 2020 campaign, especially after the passing of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the appointment of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Biden declined to say where he stood, promising only to appoint a commission to study the issue.
When the commission issued its report in December 2021, he said the benefits of expanding the Court were “uncertain”. He considered term limits and a code of ethics for Supreme Court judges, among other proposals.
President Biden took no action to implement the proposed reforms. Like the publication notes, many of them would have required legislation, which would have required at least some Republican assent to overcome the Senate filibuster.
Rep. Michael Rulli (R-OH), who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, told Breitbart News during an interview at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wis., that Democrats are simply trying to change the rules because the decisions recent members of the Court have not done so. gone his way
Biden's proposals, he said, reinforced the idea that the 2024 presidential election will indeed be “the most important of our lifetimes” because Biden had put the Court on the line.
Joel B. Pollak is a senior editor at Breitbart News and host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7:00 to 10:00 PM ET (4:00 to 7:00 PM PT). He is the author of ““The Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days”, available for pre-order on Amazon. He is also the author of “The Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump's Presidency”, now available on Audible. He is the recipient of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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