Losing to Trump, Biden Puts Bullseye on Supreme Court

Never underestimate a wounded animal, they say.

President Biden is politically wounded from his awful debate performance and demonstrably bad policies as president. Gone are the days of being the pretend unifier from Scranton just looking to help out the working man.

The new Joe Biden is angry at those around him calling for him to drop out of the race. He’s angry that they don’t think he can hack it anymore because he obviously can’t. He’s angry that he’s lost their backing and, most of all, angry that he might get clobbered by Donald Trump.

In that lens, all bets are off for the flailing Biden campaign which returned to form calling Trump a “threat to the country” just days after the former president was nearly assassinated in a Pennsylvania field.

Now, Biden has turned his bullseye to the Supreme Court, a frequent target of Democrats when the institution isn’t leaning in their direction, according to the Washington Post:

President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

He is also weighing whether to call for a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad immunity for presidents and other constitutional officeholders, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.

Democrats are reaping what they sowed when it comes to judicial appointments since the Obama presidency. When the Senate filibuster for judicial appointments was eliminated in 2013 – by Democrats – they were warned at the time it would come back to bite them, and it has. Republicans took the newfound power and ran with it. Now, with a 6-3 conservative-leaning court, thanks to Trump’s appointments, Democrats are mad that they screwed themselves.

The result has been an onslaught of hatred and vitriol aimed at the Court ever since the Dobbs ruling overturned the wrongly-decided Roe v. Wade two years ago. Since then, the court has handed down many conservative-leaning opinions that have undone some of the judicial activism over the past few decades.

Democrats, ever since Chief Justice John Roberts upheld the atrocious ObamaCare legislation as a tax, have loved the court when it helps them enforce unconstitutional laws. Outside of that, they hate any ruling that limits ways the federal government can harm people or intrude on their lives.

Any of Biden’s new proposals would have to pass Congress which means under the current makeup, it’s already dead in the water:

Term limits and an ethics code would be subject to congressional approval, which would face long odds in the Republican-controlled House and a slim Democratic majority in the Senate. Under current rules, passage in the Senate would require 60 votes. A constitutional amendment requires even more hurdles, including two-thirds support of both chambers, or by a convention of two-thirds of the states, and then approval by three-fourths of state legislatures.

The details of Biden’s considered policies have not been disclosed. A White House spokesperson declined to comment.

Like Biden’s doomed student loan forgiveness plan that was unconstitutional out of the box, his similar gutting of the Supreme Court is merely window dressing so his friends in the faculty lounge can massage each other into voting for him.

This is a kitchen-sink strategy of throwing anything at the wall and hoping it sticks.

One has to wonder, however, how voters who are currently concerned over the economy are going to care about a plan to change the Supreme Court that isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

Thanks, Joe, how about you work on lowering the cost of living, securing the border, or restoring world order instead of trying to stack the Supreme Court for your left-wing base?

Then again, Biden has never been one for respecting the rule of law when it gets in his way:

Joe Biden, the man who calls all opposition against him a threat to “democracy,” brags about ignoring the Supreme Court to unilaterally bail out people with unpaid student loans.

“The Court tried to stop me, but I found a way to do it!”

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— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 16, 2024