In a historic move, U.S. President Joe Biden proposed a set of major reforms for the conservative-controlled Supreme Court. Biden’s proposals come in the wake of Trump v. United States, where the court granted Donald Trump and future presidents broad criminal immunity from “official acts.”
In this video, Sarah Lipton-Lubet, Executive Director of court expansion advocacy organization ‘Take Back the Court,’ and Wajahat Ali, columnist for The Daily Beast, join Zeteo Political Correspondent Prem Thakker to discuss just how significant Biden’s proposal is, whether it goes far enough, and if it can be enacted.
“President Biden…is really the ‘institutionalists’ institutionalist.’ What it took for him to overcome his desire to just uphold institutions as they are is tremendous. And what moved that is just the absolute off-the-rails, unhinged decisions from a corrupt set of Republican justices that we just can’t ignore anymore,” Lipton-Lubet told Prem. ….more