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Chuck Darwin

Sheldon Whitehouse here

with big news, team:

President Biden and Vice President Harris endorsed #sweeping #reforms to the Supreme Court, including 18-year #term #limits for justices and an #enforceable #code of #ethics.

I've been leading the way on reforming the Supreme Court for many years.
This has been a long, and at times lonely, fight.
⭐️But we've got momentum now.

My ♦️SCERT Act, ♦️
which would create real ethical guardrails at the Supreme Court,
is through committee and ready for a floor vote.

AND I have the ♦️Supreme Court Biennial Appointments and Term Limits Act♦️ to establish eighteen-year term limits for justices.

👉 Will you chip in today to support my re-election campaign
so I can keep building on our momentum to
✅clean up the mess at the Court That Dark Money Built? ✅

go.whitehouseforsenate.com/080

- Sheldon

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Nonilex

The letter, part of an inquiry that #RonWyden, chair of the #Senate Finance Cmte, has opened into #HarlanCrow & #ClarenceThomas, comes as top #Democrats have urged major changes to #SCOTUS, including an #enforceable code of conduct.

Wyden said the latest revelation only increased his misgivings about the relationship between the justice & Crow. “I am deeply concerned that Mr. Crow may have been showering a public official w/extravagant gifts, then writing off those gifts to lower his tax bill”

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Chuck Darwin

Harris backs Biden's supreme court reforms

Kamala Harris has endorsed Joe Biden’s push for supreme court reforms
that include term limits for justices,
a binding code of conduct
and a constitutional amendment to remove immunity for crimes committed by a president while in office.

“President Biden and I strongly believe that the American people must have confidence in the supreme court,” she said in a statement.

Yet today, there is a clear crisis of confidence facing the supreme court as its fairness has been called into question after numerous ethics scandals and decision after decision overturning long-standing precedent.

Harris added:

These popular reforms will help to restore confidence in the court, strengthen our democracy and ensure no one is above the law."

#immunity#terms#limited
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Nonilex

“Every other federal judge is bound by an #enforceable #CodeOfConduct, & there is no reason for the Supreme Court to be exempt.

“All 3 of these reforms are supported by a majority of Americans — as well as #conservative & #liberal constitutional scholars. And I want to thank the bipartisan Presidential Commission on the #SupremeCourt of the #UnitedStates for its insightful analysis, which informed some of these proposals.

#SCOTUS #law

Chuck Darwin

Biden calls for supreme court reforms including 18-year justice term limits

Joe Biden has called for a series of ⭐️reforms to the US supreme court,
⭐️including the introduction of term limits for justices
and a
⭐️constitutional amendment to remove immunity for crimes committed by a president while in office.

In an op-ed published on Monday morning, the president said justices should be🔸 limited to a maximum of 18 years’ service on the court
rather than the current lifetime appointment,
and also said 🔸ethics rules should be strengthened to regulate justices’ behavior.

The call for reform comes after the supreme court ruled in early July that former presidents have some degree of #immunity from prosecution,
a decision that served as a major victory for Donald Trump amid his legal travails.

“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,” Biden wrote.

“I served as a US senator for 36 years, including as chairman and ranking member of the Judiciary Committee.
I have overseen more Supreme Court nominations as senator, vice president and president than anyone living today.

“I have great respect for our institutions and separation of powers.
♦️What is happening now is not normal, ♦️and it undermines the public’s confidence in the court’s decisions,
including those impacting personal freedoms.
We now stand in a breach.”

Biden called for a
⭐️“no one is above the law” amendment⭐️ to the constitution,
which would make clear that no president is entitled to #immunity from prosecution by virtue of having served in the White House.

Biden also said justices’ #terms should be #limited to 18 years,
under a system where a new justice would be appointed to the supreme court by the serving president every two years.

The president also called for #stricter, #enforceable #rules on conduct which would require justices to disclose gifts,
refrain from political activity,
and recuse themselves from cases in which they or their spouses have financial interest.

Last week Justice Elena #Kagan called for the court to strengthen the ethics code it introduced in 2023
by adding a way to enforce it.
That code was introduced after a spate of scandals involving rightwing justices on the court:
Clarence #Thomas was found to have accepted vacations and travel from a Republican mega-donor,
while Samuel #Alito flew on a private jet owned by an influential billionaire on the way to a fishing trip.
theguardian.com/us-news/articl

The Guardian · Biden calls for supreme court reforms including 18-year justice term limitsBy Adam Gabbatt
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