President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.
He is also weighing whether to call for a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad immunity for presidents and other constitutional officeholders, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.
The announcement would mark a major shift for Biden, a former chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has long resisted calls to reform the high court. The potential changes come in response to growing outrage among his supporters about recent ethics scandals surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas and decisions by the new court majority that have changed legal precedent on issues including abortion and federal regulatory powers.
He is also weighing whether to call for a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad immunity for presidents
"On the one hand, a president shouldn't be allowed to order Seal Team 6 to kill someone. On the other hand, my neighbor's dog keeps shitting in my yard."
You need 75% of the states to ratify an amendment. Even if Biden wins the election, you think the GOP ruled state legislatures will voluntarily restrict the powers of the next GOP president? The most threatening part of Project 2025 is that it only requires the next Republican President. They'll bet on Biden not using those powers the Supreme Court invented so that the next Republican President will.
I mean they might if we all start marching with guns outside their homes. Building Guillotines in the courtyards of their offices. Letting them know that there are consequences to their inaction. Because that's where we're at. You can't pretend otherwise. If they're going to say they're behind a law that says elected officials can commit any crimes they want on the populace they need to know that we will murder them for it. It's as simple as that. If the rule of law, honor, common sense, respect for democracy, even human decency doesn't cause them to do the right thing then Force has to. They say it's a revolution and it'll be peaceful if we don't resist, we have to resist.