President Joe Biden announced his proposal to reform the U.S. Supreme Court in an op-ed published in the Washington Post on Monday, castigating its right-wing majority for overturning settled legal precedents and failing to concretely address scandals involving justices. He began by taking aim at the court's decision to grant presidents broad immunity from prosecution for crimes while in office, warning that "if a future president incites a violent mob to storm the Capitol and stop the peaceful transfer of power — like we saw on Jan. 6, 2021 — there may be no legal consequences."
While Biden did not mention Donald Trump by name, it was clear that he had the former president in mind. It was Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election that led the court to vote 6-3, along ideological lines, to grant him immunity. "No one is above the law," Biden wrote. "Not the president of the United States. Not a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. No one."
