On Monday, the Biden-Harris regime rolled out perhaps its most extreme policy yet – a fundamental transformation of the nation’s highest court that seeks to neuter it root and branch of political independence, converting it into yet another cog that would irremediably carry out the marching orders of the Democratic Party’s leftmost flank.
Biden’s radical plan, which he claimed would help “strengthen the guardrails of democracy,” is anything but small-d democratic: it amounts to a power-grab by the Executive Branch, intended to eradicate separation of powers, and guarantee the Supreme Court marches to the increasingly totalitarian dictates of the regnant political order.
The plan received the full-throated endorsement of Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic nominee, and stands to represent a key pillar of her overall political platform, by far the most radical agenda of any presidential candidate in American history already. In recent years, the Supreme Court has come under intense scrutiny by liberals because of several key decisions – like overturning Roe v. Wade and granting circumscribed presidential immunity for official acts – which were made possible by President Trump’s three Supreme Court nominations. The Court’s two most conservative and experienced justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, have also received intense pressure by far-left lawmakers and groups, like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to recuse themselves, or face impeachment, for their faithful adherence to the Constitution’s original text, meaning, and purpose.
Because the Supreme Court has followed the dictates of the Constitution, rather than power-hungry Democrats, the Left has naturally called for “reform” to the nation’s High Court. Among the radical reforms proposed, which come straight from Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky’s playbooks, include a dramatic “restructuring” that would end presidential immunity, full stop, allowing the Biden regime to carry out its weaponized lawfare against President Trump and his loyal supporters unencumbered by checks and balances. Moreover, Biden and Harris have endorsed “term limits” for Supreme Court justices and, perhaps most insidiously of all, want to hold the justices to “binding ethics rules” – which would presumably allow tyrannical presidents to switch out a rogue justice who ruled antithetically to their desired policy, such as on abortion or election integrity. For a party that only speaks the language of power, the Democrats have redefined the meaning of the term “ethics” to mean those policies that keep them in power, ideally forever, which is the underlying purpose of their call to hold justices to the “highest possible standards.”