President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court reforms called an “assault on the constitutional order”: If politics are downstream from culture, how do we change culture?
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🗓️ 31 July 2024
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Summary
President Biden’s proposals for reforming the Supreme Court continue to generate headlines and illustrate the fact that politics are downstream from culture. The Wall Street Journal called his proposals “an assault on judicial independence and the constitutional order.” These types of reforms were likely to come about regardless of political party in power. Today we look at the One who is truly in power and how Jesus can change culture from upstream.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, July the 31st, 2024. |
| 0:04.7 | Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:15.0 | President Joe Biden's proposed changes to the U.S. Supreme Court are continuing to generate headlines. He outlined his |
| 0:22.1 | proposal in a Washington Post op-ed. The U.S. President would appoint a justice every two years |
| 0:27.8 | to spend 18 years in active service on the court. Currently, the Constitution gives all federal |
| 0:33.5 | judges lifetime tenure unless they resign, retire, or are removed. |
| 0:38.4 | He is calling a binding code of conduct for the court. |
| 0:42.6 | While the court adopted such a code last year, it presently has no outside means of enforcement. |
| 0:48.6 | Biden proposes a constitutional amendment that would, quote, |
| 0:52.2 | make clear that there is no immunity for crimes a |
| 0:55.0 | former president committed while in office, end quote. His reform proposal must receive support from |
| 1:01.3 | two-thirds of both the House and the Senate, then be ratified by three quarters of state legislatures. |
| 1:08.0 | The Wall Street Journal editorial board called his proposals an assault |
| 1:12.7 | on judicial independence and the constitutional order, warning that they would lead to a |
| 1:17.9 | deluge of ethics complaints against the court and would subject its appointments even more |
| 1:23.6 | to the vagaries of presidential elections. The National Review went further, calling Mr. Biden's |
| 1:29.5 | op-ed the most dangerous policy proposal by an American president since the Second World War. |
| 1:35.3 | If you are a political conservative, you likely agree with these responses. You're pleased with the |
| 1:40.5 | status quo because it produced the current six to three conservative justice majority, |
| 1:45.6 | and you're especially grateful that this majority overturned Roe v. Wade. |
| 1:50.1 | But let me ask you, what if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 election and went on to nominate |
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