President Joe Biden, who spent 36 years in the Senate, argues that half that time—18 years—is long enough to serve on the Supreme Court.
Biden’s long-shot package of proposed Supreme Court reforms comes under six months before he leaves office and almost three years since a presidential commission made some of the same recommendations.
Vice President Kamala Harris, now Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, quickly took up the proposals for imposing term limits on Supreme Court justices—though without a constitutional amendment—and a new ethics code for the high court
Seemingly out of place in Biden’s package of Supreme Court reforms is a proposed constitutional amendment to do away with presidential immunity for alleged crimes committed by a president while in office.
In a 6-3 ruling last month, the Supreme Court held that much of the…
