Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has condemned President Joe Biden's recently announced plans to overhaul the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) and amend the U.S. Constitution.
During a Monday speech at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, Biden flirted with the concept of SCOTUS reform. Under the Biden proposal, justices would be beholden to a strict set of ethics rules requiring recusal if they or their spouse have a conflict of interest in a case. It would also require the disclosure of gifts given to justices or their spouses. Notably, all the ethics recommendations mirror criticisms levied against conservative SCOTUS Justices. It would also remove lifetime Court appointments, limiting justices to staggered 18-year terms, meaning a sitting president would make a new appointment every two years.
Biden and other Democrats have been heavily critical of the Court after a series of decisions that run opposite to Democrat priorities, such as the overturning of Roe V. Wade and a recent decision that reaffirmed certain types of immunity for sitting presidents acting in their official capacity.
During his speech, Biden said he was working with Congress to explicitly apply criminal punishments to presidents in response to the SCOTUS decision.
Republican lawmakers and politicos nationwide were quick to denounce Biden's proposal, including some from Alabama.
Marshall accused the Biden/Harris administration of attempting to conform the courts to better suit the left's "ruinous agenda."
Biden & Harris want to overhaul the US Supreme Court because we finally have justices who interpret the law rather than take marching orders from the left. This Admin wants all 3 branches to share a singular, ruinous agenda and they hate our Constitution for getting in the way. pic.twitter.com/cycrHUuBOp
— Attorney General Steve Marshall (@AGSteveMarshall) July 29, 2024
"Biden & Harris want to overhaul the US Supreme Court because we finally have justices who interpret the law rather than take marching orders from the left," Marshall said. "This [administration] wants all three branches to share a singular, ruinous agenda, and they hate our Constitution for getting in the way."
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