Biden announces support for reforms to supreme court

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The president went to say that he will continue fighting for his priorities in his final six months in office, then made a bit of news: he wants to pursue reforms to the supreme court.

During Joe Biden’s term, the court’s six-member conservative supermajority has handed down decisions that he and his Democratic allies have strongly objected to. These include their 2022 ruling overturning Roe v Wade and allowing states to ban abortion and their decision a few weeks ago giving Donald Trump partial immunity from federal charges related to trying to overturn the 2020 election.

“I’m going to call for supreme court reform, because this is critical to our democracy,” Biden said.

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As he closed his speech, which lasted for about 11 minutes, Joe Biden again alluded to the threat that he believes Donald Trump poses to America’s democracy.

Saying that the choice of president is “up to you, the American people”, the president referenced a comment made by founding father Benjamin Franklin to indicate that he believes the fate of the US system of government is on the line:

When Ben Franklin was asked, as he emerged from the convention going on, whether the founders have given America a monarchy or a Republic, Franklin’s response was: a republic, if you can keep it … whether we keep our republic, is now in your hands.