Democrats Get Serious About Court Reform
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🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
On Monday, President Joe Biden announced an ambitious three-part plan to reform the Supreme Court. He’s calling for term limits, a binding ethics code, and a constitutional amendment to limit presidential immunity from prosecution. Biden’s proposals have little chance of making it through a divided Congress. However, Melissa Murray, co-host of Crooked’s legal podcast ‘Strict Scrutiny,’ says it shows that Democrats are finally waking up to the ways the court controls the party’s ability to get things done.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, July 30th. |
| 0:03.3 | I'm Josie Duffy Rice. |
| 0:04.6 | And I'm Travelle Anderson, and this is What A Day, the show where we're creating a database |
| 0:10.0 | of every Republican who reacts to being called weird by having a televised meltdown. |
| 0:16.0 | It's just like not a good strategy if you're trying to beat the weird allegations. |
| 0:21.4 | You can't freak out about being called weird. |
| 0:23.8 | Right, you can't be weird while saying you not weird. |
| 0:26.7 | Exactly. |
| 0:27.7 | Defeats the purpose. |
| 0:28.7 | Defease the purpose. |
| 0:31.2 | On today's show, former President Donald Trump will speak with the FBI about the attempted |
| 0:35.1 | assassination against him, as more details about the shooter emerge. |
| 0:39.9 | Plus Turkey's president threatens to send its military into Israel to stop attacks on Gaza. |
| 0:45.0 | But first, President Joe Biden is calling for reform of the Supreme Court. |
| 0:49.5 | He first announced a three-part plan in an op ed published by the Washington Post on Monday |
| 0:54.4 | and later in the day while at an event commemorating the 60th anniversary of the |
| 0:58.8 | Civil Rights Act he said this. My fellow Americans, based on all my experience, I'm certain we need these reforms. |
| 1:08.3 | We need these reforms to restore trust in the courts, preserve the system of checks and |
| 1:12.4 | balances that are vital to our democracy. |
| 1:15.0 | I mean I'm thrilled to see this as we've talked about on the show. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm very pro court reform so tell us about these three parts of Biden's proposal. So reform |
| 1:25.4 | number one is a call for a constitutional amendment called the no one is |
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