Per President Joe Biden, who has submitted a bill to help govern the Supreme Court. Here are excerpts from Jill's blog on the matter which cite Biden's announcement:
"First, I am calling for a constitutional amendment called the 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. I share our 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 United States 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.
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."
President Joe Biden is acting very presidential on this issue. In my view, he is dead-on accurate on his proposal. I also saw the Speaker of the House say this bill is dead on arrival. I called his office as well as a NC Republican representative, my two Republican Senators as well as Senators McConnell, Thune, Cornyn and Murkowski to implore them to consider this bill. No president or justice is above the law. I am also in favor of term limits for Senators and Congress reps.
Please join me in reaching out to Congress to consider this proposed bill.
Cure For A Broken Supreme Court
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