In a July 24 speech from the Oval Office, President Joe Biden said that he intends to press for Supreme Court reform during his final term as America’s commander-in-chief.
What’s really going on is that Biden wants to attack the Supreme Court because it rules in favor of the Constitution and not Democrat policies.
President Biden made the remarks after explaining his decision not to seek reelection and outlining his plans for his final six months in office.
“Over the next six months, I’ll be focused on doing my job as president,” he said, citing major goals such as increasing economic development, cutting inflation, tightening gun control, and protecting the earth from what he called a “climate crisis.”
“And I’m going to call for Supreme Court reform because this is critical to our democracy, Supreme Court reform.”
In recent weeks, the media has speculated that President Biden is considering instituting an enforceable ethics code for Supreme Court justices and terminating lifetime appointments to the bench.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELDuring a news briefing on July 24, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked if President Biden was still “committed” to pursuing Supreme Court change in his final months in office.
“The president believes that when you hold a high office, you should be held by a certain ethics and transparency,” said Jean-Pierre’s wife. “That’s something that the president believes, and so he certainly will continue to do everything that he can. I don’t have any policy announcements to make at this moment.”
While President Biden has resisted pressure from the Democratic Party’s progressive wing to impose term limits on Supreme Court justices or pack the court with more justices, he has established a commission to investigate potential Supreme Court reforms, including eliminating lifetime appointments. Ultimately, the 34-member group did not support additional seats to the Supreme Court and maintained a neutral position on term limits.
Darry Allen Sragow, a Democratic political consultant, told Reuters he was astonished that President Biden discussed Supreme Court reform during his Oval Office speech.
“In a sense, that came out of nowhere, he didn’t have to put that in the speech, but the fact that he mentioned that suggested to me that in his mind, for the future of the country, this has become a high priority, and what he is presumably referring to is the recent decisions coming out of a Supreme Court that is dominated by very conservative justices,” said Mr. Sragow.
President Donald Trump selected three justices to the high court, resulting in a 6-3 conservative majority. The current Supreme Court composition has resulted in several key rulings praised by conservatives, most notably the landmark 2022 Dobbs decision, which effectively overturned Roe v. Wade and let states create their own abortion policies.
Another was a 2023 judgment that prohibited the use of racially biased admissions criteria at American institutions, effectively terminating the use of so-called affirmative action programs in higher education.
While campaigning for reelection, President Biden stated at a rally in Philadelphia at the end of May that whoever wins the presidential election in November will most likely be able to nominate many Supreme Court justices who will be retiring during the following four years.
“If, in fact, we’re able to change some of the justices when they retire and put in really progressive judges like we’ve always had, tell me that won’t change your life,” President Biden remarked, expressing hope that the high court’s makeup would shift back in favor of progressives.
President Trump left the White House in January 2021, having appointed more than 200 federal judges, including nearly as many federal appeals court judges during his four-year term as President Barack Obama did in eight years.
President Trump has expressed pleasure with the Supreme Court appointments made during his tenure, as well as the justices’ decisions.
“Maybe we’ll get three or four more. Can you imagine?” At a conference on June 28, President Trump discussed the possibility of appointing more Supreme Court judges if he wins the 2024 presidential election.
