With Calls for a Constitutional Amendment to Rein in SCOTUS, Biden Isn’t Planning on Phoning in the Next Six Months
President Joe Biden doesn’t plan on spending his remaining six months in office on superficial decisions.
He has instead decided to take some of the most consequential and controversial actions a president can by reshaping what has become one of the most corrupt branches of government — the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS).
In an op-ed piece in The Washington Post on Monday, President Biden articulated his intention to urge Congress to pass a “No One Is Above the Law” constitutional amendment--no easy feat--limiting presidential immunity after the almighty unelected lifetime-appointed black-robed monarchs on the nation’s highest court declared at the end of June that US presidents are absolutely immune from criminal prosecution for “official acts”.
Biden wrote:
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. No one.
But the Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision on July 1 to grant presidents broad immunity from prosecution for crimes they commit in office means there are virtually no limits on what a president can do. The…
