US president also to seek constitutional amendment to limit immunity for presidents and various officeholders
Joe Biden will announce plans to reform the US supreme court on Monday, Politico reported, citing two people familiar with the matter, adding that the US president was likely to back term limits for justices and an enforceable code of ethics.
Biden said earlier this week during an Oval Office address that he would call for reform of the court.
He is also expected to seek a constitutional amendment to limit immunity for presidents and some other officeholders, Politico reported, in the aftermath of a July supreme court ruling that presidents have broad immunity from prosecution.
Biden will make the announcement in Texas on Monday and the specific proposals could change, the report added.
Joe Biden will announce plans to reform the US supreme court on Monday… the US president was likely to back term limits for justices and an enforceable code of ethics.
The lack of term limits exists to allow judges to be impartial. The President should explain the ideology of how the checks and balances of government will be effected.
US supreme court grabbing ‘ultimate power’, Biden reform adviser says
Hypocrisy. For centuries power has been concentrated into the executive branch. A member of SCOTUS called for ethics enforcement. The executive responds by proposing to further concentrate power.
He is also expected to seek a constitutional amendment to limit immunity for presidents and some other officeholders, Politico reported, in the aftermath of a July supreme court ruling that presidents have broad immunity from prosecution.
The executive wishes to constitutionally codify that future Presidents cannot present and cover up as poorly as Trump. Once Biden flubbed his lines the situation was at risk of a repeat. If the masses believe it’s fucked then it’s very bad for corporate profits. Profit maximization now requires a means to remove a President.
Obviously term limits don’t ensure impartiality. Fixed limits introduce an element of damage control.
Obviously term limits don’t ensure impartiality.
I agree. Note that my argument was that the lack of limits allows the possibility of impartial judgement.
Fixed limits introduce an element of damage control.
What’s the opportunity cost?
I dunno, but 8 year limits means that every president will have an opportunity for a do over instead of entrenching a bias for decades.
The lack of term limits exists to allow judges to be impartial
Well THAT clearly doesn’t work!
A member of SCOTUS called for ethics enforcement
Nonsense. They unanimously approved NON-BINDING rules for themselves. That’s the OPPOSITE of enforcement.
Did Harlan Crow put you up to this bullshit?
Largely agree with you but I think the user is referring to Justice Kagan’s comments the other day about enforcing the code of ethics: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/25/politics/kagan-supreme-court-ethics-sacramento-conference/index.html
Doesn’t really change much though.
The concentration of power in the executive branch has only occurred in the last 40 years or so with the push for “unified executive theory”. It has accelerated with this supreme Court in just the last couple of years. The court has shown themselves ready to ignore their own precedents, pick and choose historical arguments to buttress outcomes, and substitute their own judgement for Congress’s. There is no check on this madness except for court reform.
Every time the federal passes a law they’re empowered at the expense of the states. The executive has been influencing and leading legislative efforts since Washington empowered Hamilton.
But, I think I understand where you’re coming from. The federal executive has, since the beginning, also been also accumulating power primarily at the expense of the federal legislative. And, just like most everything else that sucks today, it was the Reagan administration that kicked it up a notch.
No reform of courts will suffice because the rest of the system is also broken.
The lack of term limits exists to allow judges to be impartial. The President should explain the ideology of how the checks and balances of government will be effected.
How about all having ethics be enforceable, and just keep them on the salary?
First, you think they are just going to give straight year term limits and be done with it? They have people far smarter than us writing this shit. It’ll likely be some sort thing where each presidential term gets to pick a new judge, while making sure the longest serving is removed. I don’t know, I saw someone talk about a way that would ensure it’s fair and no partisanship can sustain generations.
Also, the government will be affected, is what you wanted to say.
To help remember the correct one using RPGs, you cast an effect on someone, which has an affect on them some how.
That’s exactly what the SCOTUS justice recently requested. But, that’s not at all what’s been proposed by the President.
He literally said enforceable code of ethics. It sounds like that is exactly what he is proposing.
