In Austin, President Joe Biden called the U.S. Supreme Court “extreme” as he detailed plans for sweeping changes, including term limits.
President Joe Biden delivers the keynote address during an event commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library Monday, July 29, 2024, in Austin. Credit: Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune
Biden wrote in his op-ed that the changes to how Supreme Court justices are appointed would make them “more predictable and less arbitrary” and would “reduce the chance that any single president radically alters the makeup of the courts for generations to come.” Biden announced his historic decision to withdraw from the presidential race a week ago, becoming the first sitting eligible president to not seek reelection since 1968 when LBJ, a Texan and a Democrat, opted against running for reelection.
Last summer, a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs research found that 67% of Americans, including 82% of Democrats and 57% of Republicans, support a proposal to set Supreme Court justice terms to a specific number of years rather than a lifetime appointment. Biden’s call for changes to presidential immunity comes after the Supreme Court granted Trump and future presidents broad immunity from prosecution in a Washington case against Trump which alleged he’d tried to overturn election results in his 2020 loss in the presidential race.
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