Jim Crow Joe

[Herman]

Jim Crow Joe unveiled on Monday his plan to reform the Supreme Court.

For years, Democrats have been on a war path demanding the Supreme Court be overhauled because former President Donald Trump had the opportunity to appoint three justices to the court. Now, Biden — a lame-duck president — is trying to appease progressives on his way to retirement.

Writing in the pages of the Washington Post, Biden made three proposals.

1. 'No One Is Above the Law Amendment'
In his essay — which was almost certainly written by a White House staffer — Biden proposed a new constitutional amendment called the "No One Is Above the Law Amendment."

The basis for the amendment is untethered from reality.

Biden ironically claimed that a Supreme Court decision outlining presidential immunity "means there are virtually no limits on what a president can do." He further claimed the "only limits" of presidential power "will be those that are self-imposed by the person occupying the Oval Office."

But that's not true. That is not what the Supreme Court ruled.

"The President is not above the law," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in Trump v. United States.

Contrary to what Biden's op-ed claimed, the limits of presidential power are clear: The president is immune from criminal prosecution only in cases when he is carrying out his "official" presidential duties. That's why former President Barack Obama was never prosecuted for droning American citizens.

On the other hand, a president does not enjoy immunity for "unofficial acts" — those not within his constitutional duties as chief executive.

To state plainly: Presidential power is tightly limited, and the president himself is not the arbiter of the limits of his power.

2. Term limits for justices
Second, Biden proposed that Supreme Court justices be limited to 18-year terms, with a new justice being appointed to the court every two years.

But the reasons why the Supreme Court does not have term limits are not insignificant.

Not only are term limits currently unconstitutional, but imposing term limits and guaranteeing that a president gets to appoint two justices every four years would almost certainly make the court more political — not less.

Legal scholar Anthony Marcum explained at USA Today:

Although well-intentioned, term limits have a problem. Not only are they unconstitutional, but they will have the exact opposite result proponents wish for. More, term limits will ensure that court vacancies are inextricably tied to every presidential race and has the potential to create abrupt ideological shifts on the highest court, only increasing the political scrutiny. In other words, term limits will not lower the temperature around nominations, they will leave the country scorched.
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Yet term limits would regularize the process, and in turn tie two Supreme Court seats to every presidential cycle. A single two-term president could pick 44% of the court. If two presidents of the same party served three or four consecutive terms, an overwhelming majority of the court would quickly be ideologically one-sided. In the span of only a few years, a court of eight Scalias could turn to eight Ginsburgs. Certainly, the chance for such a dramatic ideological shift in the highest court would only put a greater spotlight on it during presidential elections and judicial confirmations.

3. Ethical code of conduct for Supreme Court

Finally, Biden wants a "binding code of conduct for the Supreme Court."

The Supreme Court, however, already self-imposes an ethics code. But Democrats are not satisfied with that because, as Biden wrote, it is "voluntary" and "weak." Biden did not provide any examples of how it is "weak."

"Justices should be required to disclose gifts, refrain from public political activity and recuse themselves from cases in which they or their spouses have financial or other conflicts of interest," Biden added. "Every other federal judge is bound by an enforceable code of conduct, and there is no reason for the Supreme Court to be exempt."

This is the least controversial of the three proposals. But the underlying implication is not true.

Just because the Supreme Court imposes its own ethical code does not mean it is without accountability.

The truth is that while progressives for years have accused Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito of ethical improprieties, they have produced no actual evidence to corroborate their claims.

One major question
While Biden's first two proposals will likely never become law, that Biden is choosing this moment to demand Supreme Court reform raises a major question.

Would Biden and Democrats be demanding change if the Supreme Court had ruled the way they wanted on abortion, presidential immunity, executive-branch power, student-loan forgiveness, the Second Amendment, and a host of additional issues?

The answer to that question likely reveals the motive for their demands.

[Shen Li]

The Biden administration is going to "phase out" single-use plastics – such as kitchen cutlery, cups and straws – across federal departments.

The White House announced a phase out of single-use plastics, which includes "plastic and polystyrene food and beverage containers, bottles, straws, cups, cutlery and disposable plastic bags."

This is useless True Dope style virtue signalling.

[Herman]

Jim Crow Joe's speech at the DNC this week was so chock-full of lies that even CNN  called him out.

[DKG]

Earlier this year, nearly $19.6 million in FEMA funds was used to pay for an illegal alien welcome center in San Diego County.

In response to Mayorkas turning out empty pockets, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) wrote, "This is easy. Mayorkas and FEMA — immediately stop spending money on illegal immigration resettlement and redirect those funds to areas hit by the hurricane. Put Americans first."

[DKG]

Biden suggested that those affected by the hurricane were universally 'happy.'

[DKG]

Undercover journalist James O'Keefe went to the front lines of the migrant industrial complex in his new documentary "Line in the Sand," and what he found was shocking.

"What my takeaway was, actually, from having lived through this and gone down there and been in Mexico and faced it with the cartel, is that it's all about money," O'Keefe tells Alex Stein of "Prime Time with Alex Stein."

"Everyone is making money off of it. And there was one scene in the film where the cartel is cutting through the fence, and I'm face to face with them. And first they were startled, and then they were like, 'You need to leave because we need to make money,'" he explains.

[DKG]

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) torched the administration for its lackluster efforts to help Americans, particularly those living in rural areas.

Kemp told WRDW, "When the first emergency declarations came down, there was only 11 counties in that. A lot of people were outraged, including me, because there was such devastation in up to 90 counties."

"So we called the White House. We spoke to the president's chief of staff, the FEMA administrator and said, 'Look, you're sending the signal that you're not paying attention to some of these rural communities,'" he continued.

At least 200 people have been confirmed dead.

"It was a massive storm, and we're dealing with things statewide, even the metro-Atlanta area had record flooding. We had mudslides. We had to evacuate people below lakes and ponds up in the northeast part of the state, so we've been dealing with it," Kemp told the news outlet.

[DKG]

Under the Biden-Harris administration, millions of dollars were allocated to various initiatives purportedly designed to tackle the immigration crisis. Yet some of those investments — including a multimillion-dollar processing center and Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention space — were not utilized.

Unused illegal alien center
In the summer, the Biden-Harris administration's Federal Emergency Management Agency allocated nearly $20 million in taxpayer funds to open an illegal immigrant processing center in San Diego County.

The decision to establish the center was made amid a massive surge in unlawful immigration in the San Diego Sector. Border encounters in the area spiked by 40% in fiscal year 2024, surpassing the already record-high numbers from the year before.

The facility was designed to provide basic services to foreign nationals who had recently entered the country as well as assist them with traveling to their intended destinations within the U.S.