President Biden Announces Bold Plan to Reform the Supreme Court and Ensure No President Is Above the Law.

If the Democrats don’t win a landslide, this goes nowhere.

Vote!!!!

This is huge

Good. We needed to hear this. How much can be done, we shall see, but a plan is a great starting point.

Vote but I think it would be absolutely brilliant if Biden uses the immunity to arrest and remove every single person trying to strip our country away. Lock up every last one, including any corrupt judges.

it's a testament to how corrupt the court has gotten that just four years ago public sentiment was steadfastly against reforming the court.

I have doubts a constitutional amendment will pass, but hopefully there are other avenues to enact this plan.

Step 1) Executive order that appoints fake judges to the supreme Court, bypass Congress by ordering the executive branch to treat the judges as legitimate.

There is no step 2.

I don’t get the appointing of a new judge every two years for 18 years. Does that mean that the courts are gonna like fill up with a bunch of justices or is it just every two years you can replace an empty seat?

Would have been nice to add insider trading by anyone in government to this list

This has been a long time coming. here's hoping the US gives Kamala a blue Congress so we can enact these changes.

I'm a bit skeptical on the first bullet point: while I'm all for an amendment to the US constitution that spells out in detail the limits on presidential authority, it's still an amendment that has to get passed. That means that it needs a 2/3rds majority in both the House and the Senate, or it needs to be supported by 2/3rds of the state legislatures. I don't think there's any way in hell that Biden's going to be able to get that through while the prospect of Trump regaining the presidency is on the horizon. At the moment, 47% of the US Senate is Democrat, with 4% caucusing with the Democrats most of the time, 49% of the US House is Democrat, and 46% of State Governors are Democrat. While it's not 100% certain that all Republicans would vote along party lines, I'm reasonably certain that all Republicans would vote along party lines, which means a constitutional amendment is dead in the water.

Now, if Harris wins the presidency, there's a good chance that the Republicans would be willing to vote for an amendment to curtail presidential authority. But right now? Nuh uh. Not gonna happen. As for the other two bullet points, they're certainly more possible right now than a constitutional amendment, but still unlikely. Dems don't have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and I'm certain that the Republicans would filibuster the shit out of that. Even if that wasn't the case, there's no way it'd pass the House. Best case scenario, Harris wins, with a large majority in both houses, and is able to push some legislation along these lines through.

Edit: changed language from "ratified by 2/3rds of the states" to "supported by 2/3rds of the state legislatures".

Ha. Good luck with that, seeing as it'll be the supreme court ruling on the constitutionality of any law that's passed. In short it'll take a constitutional amendment to do anything, and that's not happening in this political climate

"No one is above the law" seems a bit of circular with the fact that the law is what the Supreme Court says it is. Similarly, who would decide whether a Supreme Court judge violates the purported Code of Conduct?

I guess it would all come to the legislation branch, but even if the reform goes through, I'm afraid that the political division in the Congress would limit its effectiveness.

If it’s not an official executive order, it’s all bluster. Actions, not words.

Who would enforce the code of conduct on the supreme court would they have to be charged by a lower court? Or would it be congress or the president?

GOOD NEWS.

Let’s get this done.

Alrighty then.

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This whole “every two years” new justice thing is really bothering me. Did he say that or is the journalist taking liberties?

I wonder because that timing will fly straight out the window the minute someone retires early or dies. Does the next Justice get a shorter term? A longer one? Does the seat go empty for a time? Do we end up having cycles of presidencies that get to appoint 3 or 4 justices in one term?

Bah- this will keep me up tonight, I just know it.

I'm a 2A Loving Republican getting my Guns ready in case the Government gets TOO BIG and I HATE the idea of Term Limits. We need LIFETIME APPOINTMENTS in ALL Parts of the Government with NO WAY to recall or otherwise Punish people who are Corrupt!

If this doesn't pass, Biden should declare martial law until it does. He has the power, and he needs to use that power so that can lose that power. It needs to be dropped for future presidents, Democrat or Republican.

I don’t get the appointing of a new judge every two years for 18 years. Does that mean that the courts are gonna like fill up with a bunch of justices or is it just every two years you can replace an empty seat?

They'll just rule all this unconstitutional without more justices. Democrats are so useless.