Biden Calls For Term Limits For Supreme Court

President Biden (D) said, "In the face of Increasing Threats to America’s Democratic Institutions, I am calling for Three Bold Reforms, to Restore Trust and Aaccountability to the Court and our Ddemocracy."

First, He is calling for a Constitutional Amendment called: No One Is Above the Law Amendment.

It would make clear that there is No Immunity for Crimes a former President Committed while in Office. He Shares the Founders’ Belief that the President’s Power is Limited, Not Absolute. We are a Nation of Laws, Not of Kings or Dictators.

Second: We have had Term Limits for Presidents for nearly 75 years. We should have the same for Supreme Court Justices. The U.S. is the only Major Constitutional Democracy that gives Lifetime Seats to its High Court.

Term Limits would help ensure that the Court’s Membership Changes with some Regularity. That would make Timing for Court Nominations more Predictable and less Arbitrary.

It would Reduce the Chance that any Single Presidency radically Alters the Makeup of the Court for Generations to come. I Support a System in which the President would Appoint a Justice every Two Years, to spend 18 years in Active service on the Supreme Court.

Third: I’m calling for a Binding Code-of-Conduct for the Supreme Court.

This is common sense. The Court’s current Voluntary Ethics Code is Weak, and Self-Enforced.

Justices should be Required to 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.

Every other Federal Judge is bound by an Enforceable Code-of-Conduct, and there is No reason for the Supreme Court to be Exempt.

Some in congress, want an outside Group of Judges to enforce the Code-of-Conduct, by determining if a Judge and Family Members, has a Conflect in a Case.

Biden says: "All three of these reforms are supported by a majority of Americans — as well as conservative and liberal constitutional scholars. And I want to thank the bipartisan Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States for its insightful analysis, which informed some of these proposals."









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