OAN Staff Avril Elfi
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 10:38 AM
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said President Joe Biden’s recent proposals to reform the U.S. Supreme Court are “unconstitutional” and will “fail” in Congress.
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Sen. McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday he was surprised by Biden’s proposal to allow the president to appoint justices every two years and limit their terms to 18 years.
Proposals include ethics rules for Supreme Court justices, 18-year term limits and ratification of a constitutional amendment to limit presidential immunity.
“I couldn’t be more disappointed. This is a man who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee for many years. He knows perfectly well that his proposal to limit the terms of Supreme Court justices who are appointed for life by the Constitution is unconstitutional,” McConnell argued. “This just goes to show how far they’ve gone recently to attack the Supreme Court because they don’t like the current makeup of the court and the decisions that they don’t approve of.”
“The way to change the composition of the Supreme Court is to win presidential elections and senate elections and appoint people you like, not to try to destroy the Supreme Court,” McConnell continued. “I think that’s just completely unacceptable.”
“He knows better and I know that such a proposal would be rejected when it comes before Parliament,” he added.
Biden also called for a constitutional amendment to ensure former presidents are not immune from liability for “crimes committed while in office” in an attempt to denounce and denounce his former rival and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
in The Washington Post Editorial, 46Number The president cited the recent 6-3 Supreme Court decision that broadly granted the president immunity from prosecution for crimes committed in the course of his official duties, as well as the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Biden went on to point out that he served as a senator for 36 years, including as chairman and ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and argued that this was why McConnell was troubled by Biden’s seeming ignorance of how the judicial system works.
“I have great respect for our nation’s institutions and the separation of powers,” Biden wrote. “What is happening now is not normal and undermines public confidence in the decisions of the Supreme Court, including those that affect individual liberties.”
Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) declared the Supreme Court to be “muddled” by recent allegations of “unethical conduct” by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, but he declined to say whether he would put Biden’s proposed reforms up for a vote in the Senate.
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