Welcome to another edition of the Schmidt Storm. You've got questions. I've got answers. Let's get

started. The question is, before he leaves office, President Biden is looking to make reforms to the

United States Supreme Court. This is a very important issue, and this is something that's not going to

happen overnight. But we have a broken institution,

and that institution is the United States Supreme Court. The legacy of the Roberts Court is that

it has lost the trust of the American people. And during his testimony, as a nominee, the chief justice expressed over and

over again his deep and sincere concern about this. The truth of the matter is, is he is a man I admire,

I led his confirmation process. But the simple facts of the matter are he just simply has not been able to grapple with the

unprecedented political, partisan, and ethical breaches of Samuel Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas,

who is traveling the world alongside billionaires who have business

before the court, cases before the court, without disclosing it.

It's wild.

And the number one thing over time that has to happen is the abolishment of the concept of lifetime tenure.

There cannot be lifetime tenure in a season of history where human beings are going to

routinely live to be 110 years old.

It cannot be the case that we have justices serving for 80 years on the court.

It is corrupt. It is beyond the realm of the imagination of what the founders could have envisioned.

Life tenure meant something very, very different in 1780 than it does in the 2020s. And so whether it's

ethics, whether it's life tenure, the court and its functionality, its credibility and its trust

with the American people has to be restored, and it can only be restored through

reform. And in the end, what has happened at this confluence of money in politics and the money

swashing around the court in the form of Leonard Leo and some of the other very corrupt

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