Speaking to reporters during the daily briefing at the White House Tuesday afternoon, Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre failed to explain why President Joe Biden changed his position on the Supreme Court just months ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Biden published an unprecedented attack on the Supreme Court in the Washington Post Monday and called for 18 year terms limits -- a position he strongly and consistently opposed as late as 2020.
JACQUI TIME: “Is this Supreme Court proposal just an election year gambit?”
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 30, 2024
KJP: “I will say this. I think, if you read the Washington Post op-ed that the President put out yesterday, if you listen to his speech, he was reacting to what SCOTUS has been doing over the past — not… pic.twitter.com/gVpvkKYqzI
Biden's proposal would conveniently push out conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, but given it would require a constitutional amendment to implement, the proposal is going nowhere.
"President Biden’s proposal to radically overhaul the U.S. Supreme Court would tilt the balance of power and erode not only the rule of law, but the American people’s faith in our system of justice. This proposal is the logical conclusion to the Biden-Harris Administration and Congressional Democrats’ ongoing efforts to delegitimize the Supreme Court. Their calls to expand and pack the Court will soon resume," House Speaker Mike Johnson released in a statement Monday.
"It is telling that Democrats want to change the system that has guided our nation since its founding simply because they disagree with some of the Court’s recent decisions. This dangerous gambit of the Biden-Harris Administration is dead on arrival in the House," he continued.
.@Joebiden’s dangerous Supreme Court reform proposal might be relying on @SenWhitehouse unconstitutional bill (S. 3096) to pack court w/ a new justice every 2 years & then deny more senior Justices right to sit on cases involving appellate jurisdiction. https://t.co/RNZanB7TAN
— Mark Paoletta (@MarkPaoletta) July 29, 2024
Congress can deny Supreme Court jurisdiction in certain areas but can’t control which Justices sit on cases. @SenWhitehouse & @JoeBiden proposal is geared to sideline Justices Thomas first & then Alito & CJ Roberts. This is violation of separation of powers & unconstitutional.
— Mark Paoletta (@MarkPaoletta) July 29, 2024
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