Six months before the end of his term, Joe Biden unveils his plans to reform the Supreme Court of the United States

Joe Biden announced plans for urgent reforms to the US Supreme Court in a memo published on the White House website on Monday, July 29. The 81-year-old Democrat will detail the measures during a speech in Austin, Texas, in the afternoon. In particular, he wants a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s recent decision, which partially supports Donald Trump’s decision to extend his presidential immunity.

The biggest reform planned: the American president wants to limit the number of terms of the nine justices of the Supreme Court, who currently sit for life, and adopt a binding code of ethics for the highest court in the country. Several ultraconservative judges have recently been implicated in scandals. Clarence Thomas admitted to having a luxurious vacation paid for by a Republican billionaire in 2019. He also refused to recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 presidential election, after his wife participated in the campaign aimed at keeping Donald Trump in power, despite his electoral defeat.

“This nation was founded on a simple but profound principle: No one is above the law. Not the President of the United States. Not a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. No one, judged Joe Biden on Monday, in an opinion piece published in the American daily The Washington Post. What is happening now is not normal and undermines public confidence in the Court’s decisions, including those that impact individual freedoms. We now find ourselves in a breach.”

The White House said Joe Biden and his vice president, Kamala Harris, the likely Democratic presidential nominee in November, had “looking forward to working with Congress on these projects”But with six months left in Joe Biden’s term, these texts have virtually no hope of being approved by both chambers, divided between Democrats and Republicans.