Biden calls for Supreme Court reform

On July 29, President Joe Biden called for major changes to the Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS, America’s most powerful court of law). He made the proposal in a speech at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. What did Biden propose? Currently, Supreme Court judges (called justices) serve for life or until they step down. Biden called on Congress (branch of government that makes laws) to pass legislation limiting justices’ terms to18 years. He also asked Congress to create enforceable rules governing ethics in justices’ behavior, including requiring them to report gifts they receive, avoid public political activity, and withdraw from cases in which they or their spouses have conflicts of interest. In response to a July 1 SCOTUS ruling that granted legal protection to Presidents,…

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