In a speech today, President Joe Biden called for significant reforms to the United States Supreme Court.
Many are questioning Biden’s timing and motive. Some speculate this is an attempt by Democrats to push through one last major policy initiative during Biden’s tenure.
Legal experts are already expressing skepticism about the viability of Biden’s proposals.
The Washington Examiner Reports:
Biden’s Supreme Court Reforms Already on Life Support, Legal Experts Say
President Joe Biden’s ambitious three-part proposal to reform the Supreme Court is unlikely to gain traction, according to legal experts from across the political spectrum.
“It’s all posturing for the election season to try to garner votes among the far Left but also to bully the United States Supreme Court into not pursuing its current path of enforcing the Constitution,” said Harmeet K. Dhillon, California RNC National Committeewoman and lawyer, to the Washington Examiner.
Steve Vladeck, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, questioned in a July 18 Substack blog why Biden was focusing on the recent Trump v. United States decision when there are numerous other high court decisions that Democrats oppose.
“What about an amendment to overrule Rucho and reaffirm that the federal courts can adjudicate severe partisan gerrymandering? Or an amendment to overrule Citizens United and allow Congress to meaningfully limit the money in our elections? Or an amendment to overrule Dobbs? All of these have the exact same chance of getting two-thirds of the House and Senate to approve them (0.0%),” Vladeck wrote.
Additionally, Vladeck cautioned against an enforceable ethics code for the nine justices, warning that if power to enforce such a code were given to anyone other than the justices themselves, “we’d no longer have ‘one Supreme Court,’ as Article III, Section 1 says we must; we’d have two.”
Most Americans don’t believe Joe Biden should continue as president, making it unlikely that sweeping proposals from him, especially regarding the nation’s highest court, will gain significant support.