07/29/2024

President Biden Proposes SCOTUS Term Limits, Binding Code of Conduct

The rules would make justices refrain from political activity

On Monday, President Joe Biden proposed sweeping changes to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), including term limits and a binding code of conduct for its nine justices, but a deeply divided Congress means the proposals have little chance of enactment.

Biden called for the revamp, as well a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad presidential immunity recognized in a July 1 Supreme Court ruling involving former President Donald Trump, in an opinion piece published in The Washington Post. Biden is due to deliver a speech at the presidential library of former President Lyndon B. Johnson in Austin, Texas, later in the day.

"This nation was founded on a simple yet profound principle: No one is above the law. Not the president of the United States. Not a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. No one," Biden wrote in the opinion piece.

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