Bombshell Report Reveals Biden Prepping to Endorse Sweeping Changes to Supreme Court

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President Joe Biden is working on pushing sweeping changes to the Supreme Court, including establishing term limits and an “enforceable code of ethics,” reported the Washington Post on Tuesday.

“He is also weighing whether to call for a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad immunity for presidents and other constitutional officeholders, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberation,” wrote the Post’s Tyler Pager and Michael Scherer in a bombshell report — citing two people familiar with the president’s plans.

The move appears to be a direct response to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in favor of former President Donald Trump . The court gave presidents and former presidents sweeping immunity for “official acts,” but largely left it to lower courts to determine exactly what constitutes an “official act.”

The Supreme Court has been plagued by scandal in recent months after lavish gifts to Justice Clarence Thomas were uncovered by investigative journalists. Thomas has raked in over $4 million in gifts during his career including some $2.4 million in the last twenty years – according to new data from watchdog group Fix The Court. The jaw-dropping amount far outpaces all the other judges’ gifts combined, with former Justice Antonin Scalia coming in second with $175,861 in gifts received in the last twenty years. Thomas primarily received the millions in gifts from Republican mega-donors.

The Post noted that Biden “previewed” his new stance on reforming the court “in a Zoom call Saturday with the Congressional Progressive Caucus.”

“I’m going to need your help on the Supreme Court, because I’m about to come out — I don’t want to prematurely announce it — but I’m about to come out with a major initiative on limiting the court … I’ve been working with constitutional scholars for the last three months, and I need some help,” Biden said, according to the Post.

This is a developing story and has been updated.