Kamala Harris is right: Supreme Court must change
Based on the recent outrageous ruling by the Supreme Court, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris called for a constitutional amendment on the issue of presidential immunity.
I think the public would agree if it were clearly explained. Then they call for legislation that would set an 18-year term limit. (I recently suggested 24.) If Harris wins and Democrats keep control of the Senate, and Congress were to approve it, 18-year terms would change the court to a majority of Democratic appointed judges.
Then they called for a binding, enforceable, ethics code. That is clearly past due. But as the Washington Post in a column said, all this is aspirational, since it will take more Democrats in Congress to pass the legislative part of it, and getting a constitutional amendment passed is a long slog, if it ever happens.
Despite all this, I am glad Harris will run on this proposal. The renewed interest in reforming the Supreme Court comes from the outrageous decisions the conservative-six on the court have handed down in the last couple of years.
