Joe Biden has proposed sweeping reforms to the U.S. Supreme Court accusing it of making “dangerous and extreme decisions” and losing the public’s trust. The Telegraph has more.
The U.S. President, who has been a frequent critic of the conservative-leaning court’s recent judgments, said its members should be subject to 18-year term limits and a “binding” code of conduct.
Writing in the Washington Post, he claimed the court was “mired in a crisis of ethics” and needed drastic reform to “restore trust and accountability”.
Mr. Biden also proposed a constitutional amendment that would reverse a July 1st ruling in which the court ruled that Donald Trump and other former Presidents have partial immunity from criminal prosecution for “official actions” during their time in the White House.
“What is happening now is not normal, and it undermines the public’s confidence in the court’s decisions, including those impacting personal freedoms,” he said. “We now stand in a breach.”
Earlier this month, the court split along partisan lines when it ruled that Trump could not be prosecuted for exercising his constitutional powers while in office, and had the “presumption of immunity” for his official acts.
Arguing that the decision turned Presidents into “kings and dictators”, Mr Biden called for a constitutional amendment to “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,” he added.
It marks Mr. Biden’s first major intervention since he dropped out of the Presidential race and endorsed Kamala Harris just over a week ago.
Analysts said the President’s proposals were largely aspirational. Term-limits and a code of conduct would need Congressional approval, and are unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled House. A constitutional amendment would need two-thirds support in both the House and the Senate, or an even more far-fetched passage on state-level.
The President, a former Chairman of the Senate’s Judiciary Committee, accused the court of making “dangerous and extreme decisions that overturn settled legal precedents” – such as ending the federal right to an abortion.
Six of the nine Supreme Court judges were appointed by Republican presidents. Three of them were put in place by Trump, while Mr. Biden has appointed only one.
So is it now okay to oppose the “rule of law” and label judges “extreme” when they make decisions you don’t like, or only if you’re on the Left? I think we all know the answer to that.
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Was it Biden or his stand-in body double who made this proposal? https://x.com/vegastarr/status/1816538092742041927?t=0KO9gha73wgX5trzdTwwWA&s=19
Bibi is 178cm max. Nice try, but no cigar
For the first and only time, I actually agree with Biden. Everyone should have to retire no later than 70 years old, to enjoy a peaceful, relaxing, well-deserved retirement after a lifetime of work, and to give younger folks a chance to make their own mark.
The US Supreme Court, unelected and politically biased, should be abolished altogether, as incorrigibly and illegally “Legislating from the Bench”, exercising “Judicial Overreach”, handing down entirely political judgements in cases over which they have NO JURISDICTION, such as marriage, medical issues, and countless others, to say nothing of clinging to power even while slumping into their chairs in a drunken stupor, like that Ginsburg woman at nearly 90 years old.
The Copycat UK Supreme Court should also be abolished for the same reasons, as well as that sinister gang who take it upon themselves to draft entire laws for Parliament to pass without Parliament ever requesting them to do that, as our Fearless Leader Toby Young revealed in one of his articles on the oven-ready Bogus Hate Crime Act they have long prepared.
Bring back the Law Lords, who actually knew what they were doing.
FAO Heretic:
The following comment references your inflammatory postings in the News Round-Up section and for which you have successfully closed the Comments section so well done.
As a rule because of your ill-mannered postings I do not respond but you really have trawled the depths so I am prepared to make an exception this time. Would you care to provide the proof for your last paragraph…?
“It seems Mogwai is masquerading on here as a member of the public, when she is actually either on the DS staff, or in a special “relationship” with one of the editors, thereby deceiving all the other DS commenters while invading their right to privacy and anonymity.”
Pretty serious allegations for which you have absolutely no proof. Care to retract with an apology?
You have scraped the barrel throughout this thread and thrown scurrilous and dishonest comments against a number of fine DS members and as a result lowered the tone for the non-subscribers looking in. What sort of a message does this send to the wider readership? Instead of seeking to provide a decent face to all you smear the Daily Sceptic with your nastiness, made worse because your personalised invective is so spiteful.
“You demanded it of downvoters every time, not of the DS editors, but the editors responded to the constant complaints of yourself and others such as Mogwai and Huxley.”
This response to tof in which you make an utter idiot of yourself with an oxymoronic word salad sums you up. For your information I have never complained to DS Editorial about the comments of other subscribers and for the sake of decency and openness you should list all complaints made by me, tof and Mogwai. If you cannot offer the evidence then man up and apologise.
Nobody is seeking an echo chamber when posting here but lazy insults from a bullying personality lower the tone and I vouch are not welcomed by the majority. Perhaps you should spend some time in reflection and if you are sure that British civility is not within your make-up then do the decent thing. For manners’ sake I will not suggest the obvious corollary.
Excellent post, hux. Needless to say, I concur 100%. Thanks for that. People should be called out on their bad behaviour and not get to run to ‘teacher’ like a crybaby snitch.
Unfounded allegations are grotesque and especially so in view of the high standards that DS Members have set themselves.
As the saying goes – there’s always one.
Exactly. This person makes up and spreads libelous rumours about me all over the place. It’s not the first time. But I guess the DS has its own special version of free speech and he’s allowed to get away with it.
But it’s MY posts that get removed?! Go figure.
In what realm is this behaviour normal?
To quote Mogwai.
“I’ve noticed a few new usernames crop up on here of late so it could actually have the opposite effect and motivate people to finally get an account so that they can join in properly”
I didn’t realise that things got personal on here until I read Huxley above and went back to check. Haven’t we got enough to rail about in this country and the world without personal attacks? Play the ball not the man, or you lose credibility. Hux, Mog and Tof are excellent contributors and I find some of their links invaluable.
Many thanks for your kind words Mrs Bunty.
Never let earlier comments preclude you from adding your “penn’orth.” We all have slightly different slants on most topics and I for one enjoy reading the views and opinions of others.
Thanks Mrs Bunty, but also thanks for being an important contributor yourself.
You’re absolutely right in what you say. It’d be a very boring, echo chamber-type place if we all agreed on everything all of the time, so I’m all for a ‘lively’ debate now and again, just so long as things remain civil and don’t descend into a silly spat. The ‘trouble-maker’ immediately loses credibility, as you say, and just goes away looking like a bit of an eejit.
That was a dressing down fit for the end of a Metro Goldwyn Mayer Technicolour Oscar Winning Motion Picture from 1954 starring Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Barbara Stanwyck and Katherine Hepburn.
Many thanks varmint.
Well does this seem like a person of sound and rational mind to you? But because I don’t run around reporting people’s posts and crying to the DS mods this particular troll’s comments remain whereas my reply to him was removed. It’s ‘free speech’ but only until somebody says something you don’t like;
”Judging from Mogwai’s comments in the past, it seems she does have access to information about all the commenters here, which is how she was able to suddenly “out” one commenter, stating his real name as a researcher whose book famously challenged the Islamic Invasion of the West, and thereby violating his right to privacy and anonymity as a paying DS member, and possibly even endangering his life.”
As I have stated elsewhere…
“Judging from Mogwai’s comments in the past, it seems she does have access to information about all the commenters here, which is how she was able to suddenly “out” one commenter, stating his real name as a researcher whose book famously challenged the Islamic Invasion of the West, and thereby violating his right to privacy and anonymity as a paying DS member, and possibly even endangering his life.”
Hasbara Mogwai named you as Bruce Bawer on this website.
Garbage
Boom! Well said Hux
Thanks M A k
Why not try something new for you?
Like STICKING TO THE TOPIC AT HAND, for a change?
The topic of this article on which we are commenting is:
“Biden Proposes Sweeping Supreme Court Reforms as He Attacks “Extreme” Judges” by Will Jones.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/swimming-shitting-seine/5864126
The River Seine is a turd swamp. Quite the simile.
I wonder if Biden has considered that one day in the future he might be the ex president that gets fingererd for a crime while he was in office? (Hunter Laptop entanglement maybe?)
he’d want this law in place then!
Glass houses and stones come to mind
The immunity ruling would not protect him at all in that case. This may be why he wants to overturn it… By explicitly defining what a president is immune/not immune from the supreme court has ended the blanket defacto immunity that all presidents and former presidents have enjoyed up until this year.
Hi transmissionofflame,
new reply has been posted by the DHJ on the discussion section you’ve been interested in
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/07/30/news-round-up-1235/#comment-970691
That previously deleted discussion “may have been done in error”.
When a comment is removed and the responses are then associated with the parent comment, that’s a false representation of the discussion that took place.
The removed comment could be marked as “Deleted” (or “Censored” – accurate but not a good look), as readers can then see that responses were originally to another comment.
Commenters could be given the option to delete their own comment. I think it’s fine for people to retract their own comment but not for it to be censored by the site.
Well I can’t reply directly as comments on that page have been disabled!
The site can delete whatever they want I guess – but not ideal for a free speech site. I think it’s OK to delete spam, and if we had tons of just bickering it would eventually get tedious, and I guess they need to be careful about anything they might get sued for.
The features you describe exist on Reddit, not sure about what this site uses (I think it’s WordPress – not sure if they can configure it but if not then there’s not much they can do).
Please stick to the topic of the article at hand:
“Biden Proposes Sweeping Supreme Court Reforms as He Attacks ‘Extreme’ Judges”, by Will Jones.
I am highly suspicious of Biden’s motives for obvious reasons.
You need a court of last resort and some mechanism to choose who becomes part of the court. I think it’s inevitable that whoever makes the choice – politicians or public – the choice will be in part politically motivated. I really don’t know what the answer is.
The US Supreme Court started legislating from the bench in 50s or 60s with some really obviously political decisions that stretched the constitution out of shape. The “Trump Court” has really been the first to reverse that trend.
Steve Sailer has some thoughts that are worth reading: A single 18 year term for Supreme Court Justices, by Steve Sailer – The Unz Review
Thanks for the link to that very interesting article by Steve Sailer, which I just read.
He’s done some good stuff though seems off the boil of late. The comments are usually worth reading. The whole UNZ site is worth a look – Unz is a free speech absolutist (some rich US businessman). I suppose the site is mainly “right wing” though there is a strong “anti-zionist” tinge – Unz himself is an “anti-Zionist Jew” (self described).
I think judges can be unbiased but I have no idea how you create or enforce that. The late Antonin Scalia often came down on the side of the defendant even though he described himself as a “law&order conservative” because he took the protections in the constitution seriously, but I think he was something of an outlier and if you ask lefties about him they will tell you he was Literally Hitler.
Well then, if that website’s founder “UNZ” has a strong anti-Zionist tinge as you say, then it may be that he should be added to the List of Heroic Jews for telling the truth about Judaism.
The mission statement here is worth reading: Masthead – The Unz Review and this where he talks in more depth about why he started the site: Our American Pravda, by Ron Unz – The Unz Review
I suppose DS is vaguely similar
Thanks for that— I’ll have a look later.
“Writing in the Washington Post, he claimed …”
As if
Woah, mic drop. We have the acting Director of the Secret Service owning up to his share of the blame for July 13th. He’s a penis-owner and everything…crikey!
”Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe was directly involved in denying additional security resources and personnel, including counter snipers, to former President Trump’s rallies and events – despite repeated requests by the agents assigned to Trump’s detail in the two years leading up to his July 13 attempted assassination, according to several sources familiar with the decision-making.
Rowe succeeded former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned last week after bipartisan calls following her widely panned testimony before the House Oversight Committee. But both Rowe and Cheatle were directly involved in decisions denying requests for more magnetometers, additional agents, and other resources to help screen rallygoers at large, outdoor Trump campaign gatherings.
It was Rowe’s decision alone to deny counter sniper teams to any Trump event outside of driving distance from D.C., these sources asserted.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/07/30/acting_secret_service_chief_played_key_role_in_limiting_resources_for_trump_151352.html
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1818310637459472477
So Cheatle resigns but this guy gets promoted? Hmm, shady as hell;
”WHY DID BIDEN APPOINT RONALD ROWE TO SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR?
He was was promoted from Deputy Director, where he was responsible for “DIRECT OVERSIGHT of the agency’s protective operations,” according to the USSS website.
Rowe was also in charge of the agency’s countermeasures, and we learned today that NONE were used in Butler, PA.
This man should’ve been FIRED. Not promoted.
What’s up with this?”
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1818340160368738477
Off-T.
Frank Haviland is raging and I share his anger…
“This weekend’s peaceful ‘We want our country back’ demonstration in Trafalgar Square may just have been the calm before the storm. Let’s hope our politicians break the habit of a lifetime, and start prioritising the safety of the British people. If they do not, things are going to get real ugly very soon.”
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/southport-the-end-of-the-line/
Yes 3 little girls murdered. Absolutely vile. This was no random attack. He got a bloody taxi there! But where was he hiding his machete? Down his sock? We want answers, no way are they gonna be able to memory-hole this. Meanwhile in Stockport today…those ”far-right extremists” are at it again <FFS!>
”A man has reportedly been arrested while carrying a flick knife just feet from a vigil being held to honour three children killed in a stabbing rampage in Southport on Monday.
Journalist Josh Halliday posted to X: “Witnesses say a man wearing a balaclava and carrying a flick-knife has been arrested in Southport town centre. Large police presence sped off from the vigil a few hundred yards away and apprehended the man.”
Halliday also shared footage of a “confrontation” between protesters and police “at a planned far-right march” in the city, with the clip appearing to show a large group of men squaring up to a line of police officers. Later, a police van was set on fire as the crowd clashed with cops.
Speaking on the disorder, Merseyside Police said in a statement: “We can confirm officers are dealing with a disturbance during a protest in Southport this evening (Tuesday 30 July).
“At around 7.45pm, a large group of people – believed to be supporters of the English Defence League – began to throw items towards a local mosque on St Luke’s Road in Southport.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1930075/southport-stabbing-vigil-man-arrested-knife
https://x.com/alexharmstrong/status/1818377201231790157
I’m afraid Hux, ugly is the only way to be heard! History and Time immemorial, human nature!
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(Sorry mogs ,mixing up my replies
Horrific doesn’t come close Mogs.
I can feel!
Britain coming apart? Can you?
Very much Dinger but I believe we are being set up. Labour and Kneel are loving this. A few more incidents and Kneel will be standing at the Dispatch Box…
‘It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce that from midnight today this country will be under lockdown measures. Deeply regrettable as this decision is it is made with the best interests of the people of this country at its heart and unless everyone is safe, no one is safe. It is my sincerest expectation that after a period of six months reflection by the people of these islands we will as a government be able to consider lifting the restrictions although I must issue this overriding proviso – so long as the measures have proven to be effective.’
You’ve missed your calling as a totalitarian leader of a western country
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I’d say that’s exactly how it would be announced
Thanks Dinger.
“Joe Biden has proposed………….”?????——Ha ha jeez. What? he has proposed from his bath chair with a nurse feeding him tomato soup, and half of all over his jumper?
Was it Biden? I think the country is now being run by a group of unelected, faceless fanatics.
Joe Biden has proposed. Really?
!“What is happening now is not normal, and it undermines the public’s confidence in the court’s decisions, including those impacting personal freedoms,” he said. “We now stand in a breach.”
No what is happening is the Democrats are using Lawfare against your political opponents because you are desperate and he is well ahead. You are no better that a Banana Republic, actually you are worse considering the US is supposed to be the leader of the free world.
Too many lawyers think that “rule of law” means “rule by lawyers”. Starmer is one of them.
The US supreme Court actually moved in the right direction when it decided that abortion law should be made State parliaments, not by the Supreme Court.
Exactly! If it ain’t in the Constitution, it’s no business of the Supreme Court.
If the Supreme Court is guilty of over-reach, that is a reflection of Congress being in the habit of making unconstitutional laws, and of the government of acting unconstitutionally. All branches of government are responsible for protecting the constitution, but Congress have forgotten this.
I have no problem with term limits, although it would be better to have a mandatory retirement date, after which justices should not be allowed to undertake remunerated work.