Schumer hints Supreme Court bombardment is coming if Democrats win big in November

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said there are plans to implement major revisions to the Supreme Court Yes Democrats gain control of the White House and both houses of Congress.

Demands from the left for stricter rules on the Supreme Court have intensified in recent years as complaints about alleged corruption and ethical misconduct have dogged Republican-appointed justices.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have been the targets of campaigns that question their relationships with GOP mega-donors and the political involvement of their wives.

“The Supreme Court has become a quagmire, both ethically and substantively,” Schumer said he said NBC news. “Let's look at everything. There are many proposals.”

Without Republican support, Democrats' plans to implement an enforceable ethics code requiring judges to disclose all gifts and financial contributions, as well as strict rules for recusing themselves from cases, are nearly impossible to implement.

Schumer said Democrats also plan to pursue President Joe Biden's stated goal of establishing 18-year term limits for judges, as well as ending “forum shopping,” a practice in which litigants opt to hear their cases before friendly judges in specific divisions. .

The majority leader on Thursday introduced a bill called the “No Kings Act” to overturn the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity. If successful, this would mean that a president would not be immune from prosecution for “official acts”.

Republicans see Schumer and Biden's demands as a way to play the offensive, squeezing Democratic excitement in an election year and undermining the Republican-appointed majority.

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“They [Republicans] spent three decades trying to take over the courts,” Schumer said. “They've succeeded.”

Even with control of the White House and both chambers, Schumer and the Democrats would have to blow the filibuster without a 60-vote supermajority. Although that perspective may be closer to reality, as Senators Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Joe Manchin (I-WV) were two members of Schumer's caucus who refused to change the rule and did not are running for re-election.