President Joe Biden called for a series of major reforms to the Supreme Court on Monday that would counteract the unchecked power of its conservative supermajority. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, which was followed by a speech at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library that afternoon, Biden proposed an 18-year term limit for Supreme Court justices and a binding code of ethics, along with a constitutional amendment that would reverse the Supreme Court’s July 1 decision giving presidents “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution for official acts in office. “What is happening now is not normal, and it undermines the public’s confidence in the court’s decisions, including those impacting personal freedoms,” Biden wrote in the Post.
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