Kamala Harris has finally released an “issues” page on her campaign website seven weeks after she became the presumptive Democrat nominee — and part of her platform includes waging a war on the Supreme Court.
On July 1 the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that a president has “absolute immunity” for “actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority,” “at least presumptive immunity” for all “official acts,” and “no immunity for unofficial acts.” The decision severely impeded the Biden-Harris administration’s lawfare efforts against former President Donald Trump.
Harris has now vowed to fight “to ensure that no former president has immunity for crimes committed while in the White House.”
“[Harris] will also support common-sense Supreme Court reforms — like requiring Justices to comply with ethics rules that other federal judges are bound by and imposing term limits — to address the crisis of confidence facing the Supreme Court,” the issues page states.
It’s similar to a platform supported by President Joe Biden, who capitalized on the aforementioned decision to push for an overhaul of the court. “I have great respect for our institutions and the separation of powers,” Biden wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post, before immediately suggesting ways the executive branch could partner with the legislative branch to control the judicial branch.
Biden called on Congress to pass a constitutional amendment stripping all presidents of any immunity even for official acts. Biden also called for term limits and a “binding code of conduct” for the
