*Gorsuch Warns Biden
Justice Gorsuch Warns Biden to ‘Be Careful’ with Supreme Court
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Citizen Frank Published on August 4, 2024
Justice Neil Gorsuch is pushing back against President Joe
Biden’s recent proposals to restructure the Supreme Court.
“I just say: Be careful,” Gorsuch warned in an interview that
aired on “Fox News Sunday.”
Less than a week after Biden announced he was reversing course
and supporting 18-year term limits for justices and legislation to
create a binding ethics code for the high court, the first of
President Donald Trump’s three Supreme Court appointees encouraged
Americans to think long and hard before taking steps that might
undermine the independence of the judicial system.
“The independent judiciary … What does it mean to you as an
American?” Gorsuch asked about Biden’s new plan during an interview
linked to a new book Gorsuch is releasing this week. “It means that
when you’re unpopular, you can get a fair hearing.”
“If you’re in the majority, you don’t need judges and juries,
to hear you, to protect your rights, if you’re popular,” Gorsuch
continued. “It’s there for the moments when the spotlight’s on you
— when the government’s coming after you. And don’t you want a
ferociously independent judge and a jury of your peers to make
those decisions?”
Gorsuch did not comment directly on the specifics of Biden’s
plan and was not asked during the aired portion of the interview
about some of the events that the president cited as triggering his
about-face on structural changes to the high court. They include
the 2022 Supreme Court decision overturning the federal constitu-
tional right to abortion, the ruling last month granting presidents
some degree of immunity from prosecution for official acts and the
ethics controversies that have enveloped Justices Clarence Thomas
and Samuel Alito.
In the Fox interview, Gorsuch prefaced his tribute to judicial
independence with a caveat insisting that he was not injecting
himself into the presidential campaign or weighing in on an issue
now the subject of political debate.
“I’m not going to get into what is now a political issue
during a presidential election year,” he said. “I don’t think that
would be helpful.”
In an interview with New York Times columnist David French
published Sunday, Gorsuch also demurred when asked directly about
the notion of an ethics code that would be enforced by someone
other than the justices themselves.
Justice Elena Kagan, appearing at a judicial conference in
California last month, said she supports the idea of some kind of
enforcement mechanism and views its absence as a flaw in the court’s
current ethics policy.
However, Gorsuch suggested it wouldn’t be appropriate for him
to address his colleague’s suggestion because Biden had since
weighed in publicly on the issue and the subject was now being
“intensely discussed by the political branches.”
Gorsuch did offer one quip to the Times when asked about the
notion of limiting justices to 18-year terms: “I look forward to a
few years of fly fishing.”
Gorsuch is expected to continue his book tour this week with
a series of other interviews, including an appearance at the Reagan
Library in California.**
To have a out-of-control having a childish ranting President
because he is so power hungry that the will of the people no longer
matters should be grounds for impeachment of the President and his
entire cabinet.
How many decades have the conservative part of America had to
endure the bending and skewing of the Constitution that the last
time I checked was still the law of the land.
Most riots and destruction has been done by the Left since
2016 but don't underestimate the power of the right. We all have a
limit as to how much any group can endure.
It is not the corrupt Democrats to rule the SCOTUS for now.
I pray to God that they will not regain that power for many
years to come.
Conservatively,
John
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