'On top of its extreme decisions, the court is mired in a crisis of ethics,' President Biden said in a speech at the LBJ Library in Austin.
President Biden delivered his long-awaited proposal to reform the Supreme Court on Monday at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin, Texas, connecting his criticisms of today's Supreme Court to the civil rights that Johnson fought to protect. Mr.
He also called for a binding ethics code for the justices and a constitutional amendment that would limit presidential immunity, after the Supreme Court ruled Donald Trump has immunity for official acts he took as president. Mr. Biden said that the immunity ruling set a 'dangerous precedent' that will allow future presidents to break the law with impunity.
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