Biden asked Congress to pass a constitutional amendment to end to presidential immunity during a speech to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library.
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.We’re testing using AI-powered tools to provide an audio version of this story. While this audio recording is machine-generated, the story was written by human journalists.
Biden said such scandals had created a crisis of confidence in the court and that his reforms were attempts to restore the American public’s faith. He said the court was not currently self-policing and new laws needed to be enacted to make their disclosure of gifts and conflicts of interest mandatory.
“Kamala is on a crusade to undermine every last American institution and remake them in the Radical Left's image so she can force through her socialist agenda — and THAT'S a real threat to democracy,” Jake Schneider, a Trump campaign spokesperson said in a statement. During a nationally broadcast speech to discuss his withdrawal from the presidential race last week, Biden said he’d unveil a plan for Supreme Court reform which he called “critical to our democracy.”
“I would point out when the court was maybe constituted a little differently, that our Democratic friends didn't say a peep as long as the court was making decisions that they liked and they agreed with from a political perspective,” he said. Biden’s speech in Austin caps an extraordinary month in presidential politics which included an assassination attempt on Trump during a political rally in Pennsylvania and Biden’s decision, under pressure, to withdraw from the race.
In a statement on social media welcoming Biden to Austin, Doggett called the president a “true statesman and patriot.”
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