BREAKING: Biden Announces Sweeping Supreme Court Power Grab

On Monday, President Joe Biden signaled his firm support for congressional efforts to enforce new rules on U.S. Supreme Court justices, which critics say amounts to a power grab by Democrats to limit the judicial freedom of the court’s conservative majority.

Fox News reported on Biden’s remarks, echoed by Vice President Kamala Harris, calling for all justices to abide by a new code of ethics and a term limit of 18 years. Biden, who announced the news in a Washington Post op-ed, also indicated he wants to pass a new law limiting presidential immunity in the wake of the court’s decision granting sweeping authority to presidents taking official acts in office. He will expand on those proposals during remarks later in the day at the LBJ Presidential Library, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.

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“I served as a U.S. senator for 36 years, including as chairman and ranking member of the Judiciary Committee. I have overseen more Supreme Court nominations as senator, vice president and president than anyone living today,” Biden wrote in the Post. “I have great respect for our institutions and separation of powers. What is happening now is not normal, and it undermines the public’s confidence in the court’s decisions, including those impacting personal freedoms. We now stand in a breach,” Biden wrote.

Central to the Biden reforms is the elimination of freedom by sitting presidents to commit crimes while in office. Hanging over the proposal is the specter of former President Donald Trump being prosecuted for mishandling classified documents and encouraging the January 6th, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol. Both elements of Biden’s plans were supported by Harris in a statement. “Today, there is a clear crisis of confidence facing the Supreme Court as its fairness has been called into question after numerous ethics scandals and decision after decision overturning long-standing precedent,” she said.

According to the Biden plan, once all incoming justices have been appointed under the 18-year limit, a president would have the ability to fill a court opening every two years. The plan faces nearly impossible odds of being implemented as the Supreme Court’s lifetime appointments are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and were intended to keep the justices free from political influence or focused on a future after the bench. Meanwhile, Biden’s ethics rule would require that all justices “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.”

“President Biden and Vice President Harris look forward to working with Congress and empowering the American people to prevent the abuse of Presidential power, restore faith in the Supreme Court, and strengthen the guardrails of democracy,” a White House official said in a statement to Fox News.

Critics of the high court have kicked their complaints into overdrive since the 2022 undoing of Roe v. Wade, a watershed moment for conservatives that has come to define the modern slant of the court following three appointments by President Trump. A series of investigations have tied conservative Justice Clarence Thomas to high-net-worth individuals with business before the court, prompting questions about whether he was influenced by private trips and personal gifts. Supporters of Thomas have pushed back and cited efforts by staffers to liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor to have university administrators purchase large quantities of her autobiography before she came to their campuses for speaking engagements.

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