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Tuesday, July 30th, 2024

Biden proposes Supreme Court term limits, binding code of conduct

Author:     Andrea Shalal and Jeff Mason
Source:     Reuters
Publication Date:     July 29, 2024 | 12:30 PM PDT
 Link: Biden proposes Supreme Court term limits, binding code of conduct
Stephan:  

Look at the graph at the head of this article. Notice that the United States is the only developed democracy offering justices lifetime tenure. Biden is proposing this be changed. This is very good news from President Biden. I don’t think it will work until after the election and, then, only if Harris elected President and the Democrats get large majorities in both the House and the Senate. But I absolutely support this. However, it is only going to happen if you vote only for Democrats, and encourage your family and friends to do the same. This election is not about the usual politics. This is an election between continuing democracy or becoming a christofascist White supremacist handmaid oligarchy. Criminal Trump is saying it explicity. If you vote him into office, he is telling people, you won’t have to vote again.

  • Summary
  • Biden calls for 18-year term limit for justices
  • Rules would make justices refrain from political activity
  • Proposals unlikely to be passed by divided Congress

WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Monday proposed sweeping changes to the U.S. Supreme Court, including term limits and a binding code of conduct for its nine justices, but opposition from Republicans in Congress means the proposals have little chance of enactment.

Biden called on Congress to pass binding and enforceable rules that would require the justices to disclose gifts, refrain from public political activity, and recuse themselves from cases in which they or their spouses have financial or other conflicts of interest. He also urged the adoption of an 18-year term limit for the justices, who currently serve life tenures.

Biden called for the revamp, as well as a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad presidential immunity recognized in a July 1 Supreme Court ruling involving former President Donald Trump, in an opinion piece published in the Washington Post.

He will speak on the issue at the presidential library of former President Lyndon B. Johnson in Austin, Texas, later on Monday.

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1 Comment

  1. RevDean on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at 9:24 pm

    I believe that even 18 years is too much time for Supreme Court Justices. Maybe 5-10 years at most is MORE than enough!