Attacking and trying to delegitimize the Supreme Court has become an obsession for Democrats for one and only one reason: There is a conservative majority. What they can’t control, they seek to destroy.
Chuck Schumer infamously threatened conservative Justices.
Justice Kavanaugh almost caught the wirlwind when a gunman whipped into a frenzy by Democrat vitriol showed up at his home with a gun and a plan to kill him, as other protesters encouraged by Democrats protested at other conservative Justices’ homes.
Democrats also have threatened court-packing, term limits, and trying to impose an ethics code that would expose the conservative Justices to lawfare.
It seemed that the Supreme Court stalkers had settled down a bit, but Biden is desperate. He needs to fire up Democrats, who are much less enthusiactic about him than Republicans are about Trump.
So Biden reportedly plans to roll out a new assault on Supreme Court independence:
President Biden is seriously considering legislative proposals that would dramatically alter the Supreme Court, including imposing term limits and an enforceable code of ethics on the justices, according to a person familiar with the ongoing discussions.Mr. Biden’s proposals to overhaul the court, which could be unveiled in the coming weeks, would need congressional approval, something that is likely to be a long shot given Republican control of the House and the slim Democratic majority in the Senate….In a virtual meeting over the weekend with members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Mr. Biden said he was considering changes to the court but did not provide any specifics to the lawmakers.“I’m going to need your help on the Supreme Court, because I’m about to come out,” he said, referring to the proposals under consideration. “I don’t want to prematurely announce it, but I’m about to come out with a major initiative on limiting the court and what we do.”He added: “I’ve been working with constitutional scholars for the last three months, and I need some help.”
The likelihood of the assault succeeding is slim:
Term limits and an ethics code would be subject to congressional approval, which would face long odds in the Republican-controlled House and 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.
Success, however, is not the point. Biden needs an enemy to run against. That’s harder now that the near-assassination of Trump has cause direct public campaign attacks on Trump to be put on pause.
But that didn’t stop Biden from using inciteful rhetoric behind closed doors when preparing his plan:
“Look, it’s not, it’s not hyperbole to suggest Trump is literally an existential threat, an existential threat to the very constitution of democracy we, we say we care about. And I mean if this guy wins, he’s not, and now, especially with that Supreme Court giving him the kind of breadth of — I don’t need to get into the Supreme Court right now — anyway, but I need your help,” Biden said, according to a source who provided this excerpt.
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