President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.
He is also weighing whether to call for a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad immunity for presidents and other constitutional officeholders, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.
The announcement would mark a major shift for Biden, a former chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who has long resisted calls to reform the high court. The potential changes come in response to growing outrage among his supporters about recent ethics scandals surrounding Justice Clarence Thomas and decisions by the new court majority that have changed legal precedent on issues including abortion and federal regulatory powers.
How is he going to get anything through the Republican house or even the Senate without a Democratic super majority?
Proposing the changes could excite the voters enough to give him control of both chambers. Even announcing it might shift the needle for some fence sitters.
That’s exactly what we need right now. There are almost no undecided voters left, just unmotivated voters. We need something to energize voters who have been feeling ignored by the DNC, at best.
Seriously. His passive approach to the upcoming election has thusfar been infuriating. It’s like he’s assumed that not being Trump will be enough to win it for him, while his support dwindles. We need something to get people excited about voting for him, and wide-sweeping governmental reforms could be just that, at least among folks who’re paying attention. The “Well, both sides are corrupt, so what does it matter?” crowd.
As a non american I also don’t understand. So much good they did. And the R’s have so much bad stuff to their name… it should be hammer time… drive these points home.
The thing you’re missing is that left-leaning Americans have a hard time believing lip service like this because we’ve seen the Democrats fail to deliver on big promises over and over and over. Or they’ll do some crappy watered-down version of what they promised and use that as an excuse not to do anything else on the issue for decades (health care is in this category, minor changes in the right direction in 2010, and it wasn’t even until 2020 that the Democrats would admit maybe everything wasn’t solved yet).
I’m gonna vote for Biden despite the fact that I do not believe he should be president, but I fully don’t believe a word of this. The Democrats have played this type of card right before every election, and it always ends in disappointment.
Oh, no… that part I fully understand. Beiing dissapointed by your politicians is the norm unfortunately.
I was more referring to the weak sauce messaging of the Dems.
And again, the watered down versions… Yeah… Trust me, I can relate.
That’s also something I absolutely do not understand…yes, being disappointed is pretty normal in a democracy, it’s always a compromise. But not hammering down the facts what Democrats did this period to actually help every American is just Mind boggling.
Especially 6 Months before an election, here in Germany you can’t stop any politician yapping away with what they have done. (Although, positive or negative always depends on one self…)
Couldn’t have said it better myself. This is red meat for the base, but that’s what we need right now after weeks of feeling deflated.
This is the most annoying part about politics.
It’d be nice if he’d announce dealing with Citizens United at the same time.
Stop. This is good.
You are looking at a steak dinner and complaining that there’s no ice cream sundae too.
if the got the sundae, they’d complain it didn’t come with a blowie, too
But I like blowies!
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Im a progressive, but it’s down to either 1) fascism or 2) not fascism.
So… yeah…
I’m lactose intolerant you insensitive jerk!
But I like ice cream sundaes
How many times have the DNC lead people to the polls with big promises, then half way, if at all, deliver? Ive been able to vote since Reagan and its been the same thing every election. This is stuff he should have tried to tackle his first or second year. We are 15 seconds to the end of the fourth quarter and hes trying to throw a Hail Mary in the wrong direction
The downvotes on you are infuriating. That’s just people sticking their heads in the sand. Democrats always whip out the carrot right before an election. Then let it rot afterwards.
Still waiting on that student loan debt memo, Biden. I’d really like to know why you couldn’t even try to do anything on your 2020 promise until right before the 2022 midterms.
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I will vote. But you pretending like Biden wasn’t blatantly double-dipping on a campaign promise doesn’t help.
I voted for him in 2020 based on his promises, and all I got was a knife held over me for two years until it was politically expedient for him to bother even trying. He could have already been on a new attempt by the midterms, they had that memo April 2021. They promised to release it. They never did, and it got struck down like we all thought it would.
It’s the same story with every fucking policy. The Democrats waste time twiddling their thumbs until they think they can squeeze more political points out of it, they don’t care about actually doing anything.
This Supreme Court reform is gonna be the same thing. They’re going to milk this through 2024 but never actually do anything, and then sit on it until 2026 before even trying. Meanwhile he could have done this years ago and we could have already moved past whatever BS the Republicans will use to stop it and started on the next plan.
I’m so fucking tired of empty promises.
Biden offers a leftist as much as Republicans offers a Democrat.
It would involve winning the Presidency and both houses of Congress in the next election, and then nuking the Filibuster.
keeping republicans from retaining the house and taking the senate and white house is pretty much mandatory at this point.
So it’s a completely empty promise.
Democrats will never nuke the filibuster. Ever. It’s what lets them pretend their hands are tied when they kill progressive legislation they ran on but never had any intention of ever implementing.
They would rather lose Democracy forever than abandon the relic of Jim Crow they use for its intended purpose.
Theyve had a shit ton of opportunities to kill the filibuster, but dont want to lose that rotating villain.
The thing he already chose not to do. If it cant be done by Biden unilaterally at this point, it cant be done by him at all.
Manchin and Sinema voted against abolishing the filibuster; Biden was in favor of removing he, he just didn’t have the votes.
And what were the calls to primary the people that would not vote in favor of it in the midterms? That’s how people hold their politicians accountable. But VBNMW people never hold their politicians accountable that’s why the politicians keep getting worse because they don’t have to work in favor of their votes, because they’re going to get them regardless of what they do, no matter how shitty the policy no matter how shitty the rhetoric, the loyalists will stay in line.
Well, he’s immune now so clearly he should just assassinate anyone who is in opposition /s
/s, or /s/s?
wink
There’s this little event happening in November that can change things.
Even if it doesn’t pass the house or senate, it shows that he’s trying something and isn’t just giving up.