As Leah reported early Monday morning, President Joe Biden -- a lame duck after dropping out of the 2024 race for the White House -- has launched a fresh attack on the Supreme Court with an assist from Vice President Kamala Harris.
"We have had term limits for presidents for nearly 75 years. We should have the same for Supreme Court justices," Biden wrote in the Washington Post Monday. "Term limits would help ensure that the court’s membership changes with some regularity. That would make timing for court nominations more predictable and less arbitrary. It would reduce the chance that any single presidency radically alters the makeup of the court for generations to come. I support a system in which the president would appoint a justice every two years to spend 18 years in active service on the Supreme Court."
Biden Unveils Radical Plan to Reform the Supreme Court
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 29, 2024
https://t.co/NyMxtZpg1L
Biden and his Democrat allies in the Senate are classifying the plan as "reform" to "protect Democracy," but this is the goal:
Biden endorses 18-year term limits for the Supreme Court.
— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) July 29, 2024
The Senate Democrats' SCOTUS term-limit bill would effectively turn the 6-3 conservative majority into a 5-4 progressive majority by forcing Thomas & Roberts into "senior status" & replacing them with new appointees. pic.twitter.com/fUIJVkQSFx
Constitutional scholar Leonard Leo, who has been targeted and harassed by Democrats for his leadership and philanthropy in the conservative movement, isn't buying the Biden/Harris premise.
“No conservative justice has made any decision in any big case that surprised anyone, so let’s stop pretending this is about undue influence. It’s about Democrats destroying a court they don’t agree with," Leo released in a statement. “If President Biden and the Democrats were truly serious about ethics reform, then they would ban all gifts and hospitality of any kind to any public official in any branch of government, starting with Congress, where the real corruption is. They would close all of the loopholes that allow Members to travel on private jets to fancy hotels and restaurants. With respect to judges, they would include the things where influence peddling is most present and dangerous—and that’s when the liberal Justices rub shoulders with influencers at places like law schools, bar associations, progressive think tanks and their conferences, and other groups and events funded by Left-wing billionaires, where they support real vested interests in the work of the Court."
“Let me be clear: If Democrats want to adopt an across the board ethics ban for all branches, I am in favor of that: no jets, no meals, no speaking honorariums, no gifts for anyone from anyone for any reason in any branch, starting with Congress. Until they support that, let’s all be honest about what this is: a campaign to destroy a court that they disagree with," he continued.
The move isn't going over well and is being called a sign of desperation as Harris trails behing Trump in her quest to occupy the Oval Office.
Chuck Schumer says the Supreme Court “threatens democracy.”
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) July 28, 2024
Democrats just installed Kamala Harris as their presidential nominee without a primary.pic.twitter.com/IsRy8ilqtD
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris want to end-run the Constitution and destroy the Supreme Court because they can't control it.
— Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) July 29, 2024
The *only* way to get term limits for Supreme Court justices is to pass a constitutional amendment.
The highest Court in the land… https://t.co/QtxlWDam3v
This story has been updated with additional information.