Conservative Institute
President Joe Biden unveiled a Supreme Court reform proposal this week which included term limits, an enforceable ethics code, as well as a constitutional amendment to curtail presidential immunity.
Yet despite praising the initiative, one liberal columnist recently acknowledged that the plan is likely finished.
The Hill contributor says Supreme Court is “a zombie institution”
That argument was put forward in an op-ed piece by The Hill contributor Chris Truax, who wrote that “the Supreme Court is now one of the walking dead.”
He went on to call America’s highest judicial body “a zombie institution” that will continue “shuffling along until so many bits fall off that it becomes incapacitated.”
According to Truax, “the Supreme Court’s refusal to abide by the ethics rules and procedures that govern all other federal courts is already eroding its legitimacy.”
As an example of this supposed phenomenon, Traux linked to an earlier article he wrote about Justice Samuel Alito’s refusal to recuse himself from cases involving January 6 and former President Donald Trump despite controversy over his wife flying an upside down flag at their home.
“No longer viewed as an honest broker, the instability caused by the court’s final capture by partisan politics will complete the process,” Traux predicted.
Traux says constitutional amendment will be required
Nevertheless, the columnist believes that “Biden’s proposals aren’t going to be effective” and are “almost certain to fail in today’s partisan Capitol.”
Although Traux thinks that “fixed terms for Supreme Court justices would have some advantages,” imposing them would likely run afoul of the Constitution and its lifetime appointment requirement for federal judges…
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