Biden and Harris Propose Abolishing Supreme Court as Independent Branch of GovernmentKen Klukowski 29 Jul 2024 Washington, DC
WASHINGTON, DC — Vice President Kamala Harris joined President Joe Biden’s call on Monday to fundamentally abolish the Supreme Court’s independence, destroying its status as a separate branch of government shielded from political pressure, with specific features that are so clearly unconstitutional they could only be done by changing the Constitution itself. And conservative leaders are calling out the Biden-Harris scheme for what it is.
The Washington Post published an op-ed from Biden, pushing three structural changes to America’s basic safeguards for liberty found in the Constitution’s separation of powers. And Democrats’ new torchbearer — Kamala Harris — publicly embraced Biden’s agenda, thereby making it an issue for the presidential campaign.
First, Biden argues that Supreme Court justices should serve 18-year terms, so every two years, there will be a vacancy that the current president would fill. It would abolish lifetime tenure, which all federal judges at every level have had since the Constitution was ratified in 1789.
Any such law would be unconstitutional because the Constitution says all federal judges continue to hold their offices “during good behavior.” Unless they are convicted of a felony, they serve until they retire or die in office.
Second, Biden called for the Supreme Court to be bound by an “ethics code” imposed by Congress. As previously explained in detail, this is nothing more than “reverse court-packing.” Instead of adding seats the Supreme Court, Democrats seek to create a list of rules that would routinely recuse conservative justices from key cases, leaving a liberal majority to render decisions with which far-left politicians like Harris agree.
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