An Election-Year ‘Political Weapon’? Biden Accuses High Court of ‘Extreme Opinions’ in Reform Push

President Joe Biden is accusing the current conservative Supreme Court of ‘extreme opinions’ as he calls for reforms, but critics say his proposal to change the court is more about election-year politics. 

Biden defended his plan to overhaul the Supreme Court at the L.B.J. Presidential Library in Austin, Texas on Monday. He called for term limits of 18 years for the justices and a binding code of conduct. 

“The Supreme Court’s current ethics code is weak and even more frightening, voluntary,” Biden said.
He also pitched a constitutional amendment to limit the presidential immunity that was established by the high court earlier this month. “I’m certain we need these reforms,” Biden said. 

Congressional Republican leaders slammed his proposal with Sen. Lindsey Graham calling it dead on arrival.

“The Roberts court has brought constitutional balance back to the court, and the liberals in this country want to pack the court, they want to destroy the court. So their initiatives coming from Biden will be dead on arrival. They have no desire to make the Court better they just want to make it more liberal,” Graham said.

Legal scholars say this is about the political left’s discontent with recent Supreme Court decisions including the

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