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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Biden Wants to Overhaul the Supreme Court. What About Harris?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Joe Biden says he'll use his last months in office to push for "reform" of the Supreme Court, possibly including term limits, while Justice Elena Kagan comes out in favor of an "enforcement mechanism" for its ethics code. What are the pitfalls of these ideas, and will Kamala Harris, as the Democratic nominee for president, endorse them as the November election nears? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

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President Biden promises a push for Supreme Court reform during his last six months in office and the media leaks have

0:34.6

already begun to suggest what he could have in mind. Plus Justice Elena

0:38.7

Kagan tells a judicial conference she wants lower court judges to investigate allegations against her and her colleagues.

0:47.6

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

0:50.4

We are joined today by my colleagues, Kim Strassal and editorial board member

0:55.4

Manet Uqué Barua. In a speech to the nation on Wednesday night occasioned by

1:00.7

his decision to forego running for re-election.

1:03.6

President Biden said he isn't off the job

1:05.5

and he will keep speaking out on climate change,

1:08.4

fighting for his cancer moonshot, and so forth.

1:11.6

And then he said this, quote, I'm going to call for a Supreme Court

1:14.8

reform because this is critical to our democracy unquote. Kim leaks to the press as

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early as a week ago, said as much, including some details about

1:25.8

what Biden was considering pushing for, including term limits on the justices, apparently

1:31.1

passed by some legislation through Congress,

1:33.7

unenforceable ethics code, and maybe a constitutional amendment

1:37.9

to override the justice's recent decision

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