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Biden to announce plans to reform US supreme court – report(www.theguardian.com)

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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.

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ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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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.

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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).

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

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

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