The White House defended President Joe Biden‘s Supreme Court overhaul plans against a host of harsh questions Tuesday, with one reporter asking if the plan was “just an election year gambit.”
“What we’re seeing right now is not normal,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said of the high court’s recent rulings. “A majority of Americans agree with us. What we’re seeing at the Supreme Court is not normal. The president spoke to that at length.”
Biden unveiled a trio of proposals this week: 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices, a constitutional amendment to overturn the court’s recent presidential immunity decision, and a “binding” ethics code. None of the ideas stand a serious chance of becoming law, with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) declaring each of them “dead on arrival” in Congress.
During remarks Monday in Austin, Texas, Biden shot…
