Biden unveils plan for Supreme Court reforms, including term limits
President Joe Biden is revealing a plan proposing changes to the Supreme Court, including pushing Congress to establish term limits and an ethics code for the court's nine justices.
The commander-in-chief also asked legislators to approve a constitutional amendment to limit presidential immunity.
Biden proposes changes to the Supreme Court
President Joe Biden is unveiling a proposal for changes at the Supreme Court. These changes are calling on Congress to establish term limits and an ethics code for the court’s nine justices. Jeremy Rosenthal joined Jeane Franseen to discuss what this all could mean.
On Monday, White House officials offered details about the president's plan ahead of November's election.
Biden is expected to discuss his proposal Monday during a speech at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas.
What changes to the Supreme Court is Biden proposing?
Biden wants to get rid of lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court, arguing that Congress should pass a law to establish a system in which the sitting president would appoint a justice every two years to spend 18 years in service on the court, the Associated Press reports.
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The president contends that term limits would help ensure that court membership changes with some frequency, adding predictability to the nomination process.
According to the AP, Biden is also pushing Congress to pass a law establishing a code of ethics for Supreme Court justices that would require them to reveal gifts, refrain from public political activity and recuse themselves from cases in which they or their spouses have financial or other conflicts of interest.
Biden also is calling on Congress to pass a constitutional amendment reversing the Supreme Court’s recent landmark immunity ruling that determined former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution.
On July 1, the Supreme Court decided it would not fully rule on former President Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from federal prosecution and sent the case back to a lower court for further examination.
The ruling extends the delay in the Washington, D.C. criminal case against Trump on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 election loss, lowering the chances that Trump could be tried before the November election.
The justices have ordered the trial judge to determine how to apply the decision to the Republican ex-president’s case. Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized the ruling, saying it undermines the principle that no one is above the law. Trump called it a big win.
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Democrats tell the AP that the president's effort will help bring attention to recent SCOTUS decisions, including the 2022 ruling taking away women’s constitutional protections for abortion, by the conservative-majority court that includes three justices appointed by Trump when he was president.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. This story was reported from Washington, D.C.