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Lois Beckett

MYSTERIOUS: Biden to reportedly push for supreme court term limits and new ethics code - What They Never Told You

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Joe Biden in Northville, Michigan, on 12 July 2024. Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

Joe Biden plans to endorse term limits for supreme court justices and a new ethics code, the Washington Post reported, as an emboldened rightwing court continues to upend US legal precedent despite operating under the cloud of multiple ethics scandals.

Biden is also mulling whether to call for a new constitutional amendment that would eliminate sweeping immunity for presidents and other officials, the Post reported, citing two unnamed people familiar with the president’s thinking.

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