Biden to push for Supreme Court ethics reform, term limits and amendment to overturn immunity ruling, sources say

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Would have been good if he was working last 3.5 years too, now doing damage control is too little too late

The problem ofc being that congress fights him tooth and nail for anything he wants done, but yeah... all his fault.

Not all his fault, but he definitely shares much of the blame, largely due to a lack of leadership on the topic.

What the president can do in those situations is focus the discussion, he has the highest pulpit of any politician, he should've been using it to move the frame of discussion and shift party strategy to make court reform a stronger pillar of the party platform. When the president says something it gives other party members permission to hammer on an idea.

Instead he lingered on his dusty, worthless notions of bipartisanship and "reaching across the aisle" and wasted all his political capital defending a genocide.

He could have done what hes trying to do now three years ago. Why did he wait until there were LESS democrats in office before trying?

... Because the SC seemed to act sufficiently unbiased and ethically until now?