A President Harris might not get any Supreme Court picks – Biden proposes term limits to make sure all future presidents get two.
A President Harris might not get any Supreme Court picks – Biden proposes term limits to make sure all future presidents get two.
A scholar of the Supreme Court and its relationship to the people of the United States says that President Joe Biden’s proposed term limits for justices can restore the court’s eroded legitimacy.
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Restore the court’s eroded legitimacy? Two justices at a time per term? Even if Harris wins and gets two in her first term and manages to replace two conservative justices with two liberal justices, that would still leave the court at 5/4 in the Conservatives favor. That would mean at least four more years of conservative zealotry handed down by the court.
The problem needs to be fixed as soon as possible. This is a good first step, or would have been 10 or 20 years ago but it isn't enough right now. Biden needs to add members to the court as well as adding term limits. Or to be more realistic, Harris will need to do it. There's no way a Republican House or 50/50 Senate is going to let Biden do anything in the next 5 months.
Or to be more realistic, Harris will need to do it.
Or to be even more realistic, Congress needs to.
replace two conservative justices with two liberal justices, that would still leave the court at 5/4 in the Conservatives favor.
Not sure how you get that. The current 6/3 conservative majority would become a 5/4 liberal majority.
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I fail to see the reasoning there, but I did mention in my post that Biden would not be able to do it anyway. He will not be able to push through any reforms because the House will block him from doing so.
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Congress sets the number of seats on the court, so the House does have an important role.
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