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“Like many of Joe Biden’s ideas, most of it is unconstitutional, Steve. And the Democrats cannot simply pass a law imposing term limits on justices because life terms are embedded in the Constitution,” Jarrett said on the morning show. “So, it requires amending the founding document, which is such a high bar, that it has zero chance.”
The White House fact sheet stated that Supreme Court justices should have an eighteen-year term, taking away lifetime appointments so that a single presidency can’t have a disproportionate influence than the next.
“Joe’s other idea of imposing ethical controls on justices, as you point out, Steve, that is a blatant violation of the separation of powers principle,” Jarrett said. “So all of this is just electoral pablum for Democrats.”
President Biden is asking Congress to pass ethics rules which would require justices to “disclose gifts, refrain from public political activity, and recuse themselves from cases in which they or their spouses have financial or other conflicts of interest.”
Not only did Biden suggest imposing term limits on justices and not on Congress itself which is much more pressing, he again pushed for student loan forgiveness programs which The Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional from his first attempt.
“I find it interesting that Joe Biden has spent decades opposing the very kind of radical reforms that he now advocates. And it’s also pretty amusing, Steve, an 81-year-old president wants to age out younger high court justices that are a lot more sentient than Joe Biden is. Biden knows he can’t do this,” Jarrett added. “But, like many of the things he proposes, he does it anyway to troll for votes.”
“Remember, most of this has to be done by constitutional amendment. To even propose an amendment, you have to have the two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress or states in constitutional conventions and once you get past that hurdle, you got to have ratification by three-quarters of the states,” Jarrett continued. “That is impossible. Sorry.”
