WASHINGTON: Prez Joe Biden has unveiled a long-awaited proposal for changes at the US 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.
White House 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.
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 questionable relationships and decisions by some members of the conservative wing of the court that suggest their impartiality is compromised.
“I have great respect for our institutions and separation of powers,” Biden wrote in Washington Post Monday. “What is happening now is not normal, and it undermines the public’s confidence in the court’s decisions, including those impacting personal freedoms. We now stand in a breach.”
Trump has decried court reform as a desperate attempt by Dems to “Play the Ref.” This month, he said, “Democrats are attempting to interfere in the presidential election, and destroy our justice system, by attacking their political opponent, ME, and our honourable SC. We have to fight for our fair and independent courts, and protect our country.”
White House 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.
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 questionable relationships and decisions by some members of the conservative wing of the court that suggest their impartiality is compromised.
“I have great respect for our institutions and separation of powers,” Biden wrote in Washington Post Monday. “What is happening now is not normal, and it undermines the public’s confidence in the court’s decisions, including those impacting personal freedoms. We now stand in a breach.”
Trump has decried court reform as a desperate attempt by Dems to “Play the Ref.” This month, he said, “Democrats are attempting to interfere in the presidential election, and destroy our justice system, by attacking their political opponent, ME, and our honourable SC. We have to fight for our fair and independent courts, and protect our country.”