Leonard Leo, co-chairman of the Federalist Society, slammed President Joe Biden’s announcement calling for term limits and a binding code of conduct for the Supreme Court, arguing that the proposed package is “about Democrats destroying a court they don’t agree with.”
Biden’s government X account announced the proposed package on July 29, stating that the president is “calling for three bold reforms to restore trust and accountability to the court and our democracy.”
In response, Leonard Leo issued a statement scrutinizing the intentions behind the package.
“No conservative justice has made any decision in any big case that surprised anyone, so let’s stop pretending this is about undue influence. It’s about Democrats destroying a court they don’t agree with,” said Leo, according to a copy of his statement posted on X by Guy Benson.
Leo is the former executive vice president of the Federalist Society, has served three terms as chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and has previously advised President Donald Trump on judicial selections, according to the Federalist Society website.
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In his statement, Leo argued: “If President Biden and the Democrats were truly serious about ethics reform, then they would ban all gifts and hospitality of any kind to any public official in any branch of government, starting with Congress, where the real corruption is.”
Such restrictions would eliminate the loopholes that enable Congressional lawmakers to use private jets to go “to fancy hotels and restaurants,” he continued:
With respect to judges, they would include the things where influence peddling is most present and dangerous–and that’s when the liberal Justices rub shoulders with influencers at places like law schools, bar associations, progressive think tanks and their conferences, and other groups and events funded by Left-wing billionaires, where they support real vested interests in the work of the Court.
Leo added: “Let me be clear: If Democrats want to adopt an across the board ethics ban for all branches, I am in favor of that: no jets, no meals, no speaking honorariums, no gifts for anyone from anyone for any reason in any branch, starting with Congress.”
“Until they support that, let’s all be honest about what this is: a campaign to destroy a court that they disagree with,” he concluded.
Other critics have also cited the package to accuse Biden of attempting to “pack” the court. CatholicVote’s full report on the proposed package can be read here.
LifeNews Note: McKenna Snow writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.
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