US president also to seek constitutional amendment to limit immunity for presidents and various officeholders

US president also to seek constitutional amendment to limit immunity for presidents and various officeholders

Joe Biden will announce plans to reform the US supreme court on Monday, Politico reported, citing two people familiar with the matter, adding that the US president was likely to back term limits for justices and an enforceable code of ethics.

Biden said earlier this week during an Oval Office address that he would call for reform of the court.

He is also expected to seek a constitutional amendment to limit immunity for presidents and some other officeholders, Politico reported, in the aftermath of a July supreme court ruling that presidents have broad immunity from prosecution.

Biden will make the announcement in Texas on Monday and the specific proposals could change, the report added.

    • 4lan@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      What if we just made the limit 1 term? Then no presidents would be doing actions purely to get reelected?

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        2 months ago

        Would be so much worse… Think about any type of project or policy that takes more than 4 years to complete (and longer to see tangible benefits from).

        It’s already bad enough having a GOP president come in every 8 years to undo most of the good things their Democratic predecessor accomplished (with Reagan removing Carter’s solar panels from the White House roof being the archetype).

        Imagine having that pendulum swing every 4 years. Literally nothing that takes longer than 4 years would ever get done.

      • _bcron@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 months ago

        I think the problem with that would be that every 4-12 years we’d have a lame duck supreme court playing tug of war with the last supreme court over a handful of issues.

        What we really need is to be able to easily oust justices for ethics violations and conflicts of interest, like what the hell is Thomas still doing there??

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      He is also expected to seek a constitutional amendment

      Arguably, this is still pussyfooting since there’s no fucking way he has anything near the number of votes needed for this.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        2 months ago

        Whenever I see a politician mention anything about a constitutional amendment, I immediately stop reading.

        Shit ain’t happening… We wouldn’t be able to pass an amendment saying “Pizza is yummy” because Republicans would refuse to agree with Democrats. They would actually stop eating pizza altogether because of it. There would be a movement to outlaw pizza because it’s grooming our kids (stupid sexy pizza).

        I was trying to think of something silly and outlandish, and as I was typing this, I realized… This isn’t even that far out of the realm of possibility at this point. It’s like legitimately difficult to think of something too far-fetched for this reality. It wouldn’t be the first pizza-related issue on the right (ahem, Pizzagate?). Or the second (I just remembered the stupid “pizza is a vegetable” bullshit).

        The looking glass ain’t shit, we went through it years ago. We’re at the end of “2001: A Space Odyssey” with Pink Floyd’s Echoes playing in sync with it. If we’re lucky, we’ll soon make it through the psychedelic spaghettification, and we will get to watch ourselves as a boring old man before becoming a giant space fetus…

        Sorry, got kind of sidetracked there what were we talking about again?

        Oh yeah, Jupiter and beyond the infinite…

        (Spoiler alert? Lol I couldn’t spoil the end of that film if I tried).

        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          2 months ago

          I just remembered the stupid “pizza is a vegetable” bullshit

          I think you’re thinking of Reagan’s “ketchup is a vegetable” bullshit.

            • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
              0·
              2 months ago

              The bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable, as it is now.

              TBF that’s not even as bad as Reagan’s “ketchup is a vegetable”. Canning is a totally legitimate way of preserving tomatoes at their peak of ripeness with their nutritional qualities intact (many chefs even prefer canned tomatoes to fresh ones) and paste/sauce is just the ground-up version of that. Ketchup is that plus a shit ton of sugar and/or corn syrup.

              The amount of tomato sauce on pizza is dubiously small, however.

              • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                1·
                2 months ago

                It was more about the conservative reaction to the situation. Because it was during Obama tenure, and Michelle had the gall to get all uppity and try to make kids more healthy.