Harris Co-Proposed Radical Biden Plan To Shake Up Supreme Court

Republicans ripped President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s long-term proposal to reshape the Supreme Court as a way to politicize the judicial system.

“President Biden and I are calling on Congress to pass important reforms – from imposing term limits for Justices’ active service, to requiring Justices to comply with binding ethics rules just like every other federal judge. These popular reforms will help to restore confidence in the Court, strengthen our democracy, and ensure no one is above the law,” Harris said in a statement.

The proposals include an 18-year term limit and requirements that justices disclose gifts, avoid political activity, and recuse themselves over conflicts of interest. They also pitched a constitutional amendment that would rescind the Supreme Court’s July finding that presidents have presumed immunity for the core functions of their office.

Harris has acknowledged that she contributed to the plan’s formulation but did not host any public events to promote it.

“I’ve made clear how I feel about Kamala and she’s been an incredible partner to me and a champion of surprise throughout her career,” Biden said in his speech.

“And she’ll continue to be an inspiring leader and project the very idea of America — the very idea that we’re all created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives.”

The court has a 6-3 conservative majority, and the White House is trying to capitalize on the mounting anger among Democrats over the court’s rulings that reversed long-standing precedents on federal regulatory authority and abortion rights.

Liberals have also expressed dismay about disclosures regarding choices and relationships made by several members of the conservative wing of the court that they claim cast doubt on their impartiality.

Later, Harris said in a statement that the American people needed to have faith in a Supreme Court free of ethics scandals and decisions that flouted established precedent.

She said the reforms being proposed “will help to restore confidence in the Court, strengthen our democracy, and ensure no one is above the law.”

Biden is advocating for the elimination of lifetime appointments to the judiciary.

He believes that Congress should pass legislation to establish a system in which the president in office would appoint a justice every two years to serve on the court for eighteen years.

He contends that term limits would provide some stability to the nomination process and help guarantee that court membership changes regularly.

Kamala Harris, who was a senator at the time and a Democrat running for president in 2020, did not rule out the possibility of packing the Supreme Court when she was seeking her party’s nomination to run against Trump in 2020.

During her previous campaign, the woman who is now vice president and the Democratic candidate for president in 2024 said many times that she wasn’t against expanding the Supreme Court. This would theoretically allow more liberal justices to be appointed and take on a majority role.

“I’m open to this conversation about increasing the number of people on the United States Supreme Court,” Harris told voters in Nashua, New Hampshire, after a question was posed to her about adding up to four seats to the high court, Bloomberg reported at the time.