Legal Scholar Confirms Biden-Harris Court Packing Plan is Unconstitutional
A member of the bipartisan Presidential Commission has warned that President Joe Biden’s proposed Supreme Court reforms are unconstitutional, despite Biden’s claim that the Presidential Commission’s analysis informed the proposals.
Biden specifically recommended term limits for SCOTUS justices and a binding ethics code, but, in a statement to the Free Press, Presidential Commissioner Adam White said that “nothing in our report actually recommended” the President’s proposed reforms.
The legal scholar from the American Enterprise Institute told the Free Press that the reforms were unconstitutional, explaining, “The Constitution explicitly guarantees that justices hold their office in good behavior, which means until impeachment or death or retirement, that’s always been understood as life tenure.”
Biden’s proposal would only allow justices to “actively” serve for 18 years, and then forbid them from participating in their ordinary duties. White warned that these term limits “open the door to Congress playing total mischief with the court.”
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White also expressed concern over the proposed ethics code, saying that even though it is “incredibly important” to have judges with high moral standards, “any proposal by Congress to assume for itself the power to micromanage the ability of justices to decide on their own code of ethics would be an enormous breach of the Constitution’s separation of powers.”
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) has already stated that Congress would not consider any of Biden’s proposed reforms, a Reuters article explains, stating that the proposed reforms would “delegitimize the Court.”
LifeNews Note: Grace Porto writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.
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