Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), in an interview with Punchbowl News, compared President Biden’s proposed Supreme Court reforms to the January 6, 2021 attacks on the U.S. Capitol.
“That’s what some people were trying to do on January 6th — break the system of passing an administration from one administration to another,” McConnell said in the interview, referring to the proposed reforms. “We can have our arguments, but we shouldn’t try to break the rules.”
Reforms Biden has supported include 18-year term limits, which would allow a president to nominate a new judge every two years, along with a binding code of conduct.
McConnell said earlier this week that term limits will end up “dead on arrival” in the Legislature.
“I couldn’t be more disappointed. This is a man who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee for a long time. He absolutely knows that what he recommended is unconstitutional, to try to limit the terms of Supreme Court justices who under the Constitution are appointed for life,” McConnell said.
McConnell is not the only conservative to follow the proposed reforms. Former Attorney General Bill Barr also criticized the reforms in an op-ed published by Fox News earlier this week.
“Americans need to understand that the campaign to radically change the Court is coming. While current proposals, such as term limits for senior justices and an imposed code of ethics, threaten the Constitution and the separation of powers, the far left demands that the Court be filled with additional liberal justices,” Barr and Kelly Shackelford, president, CEO and chief advisor of the First Liberty Institute, said in the article.
Vice President Harris, whom Biden supported for president, embraced the reforms.
The Hill reached out to the White House.
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