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The Economist
The Economist
30 Jul 2024


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United States | POTUS and SCOTUS

How the election will shape the Supreme Court

A second Trump administration could lock in a conservative supermajority for decades

|New York

IN a speech in Texas on July 29th President Joe Biden called for major changes to America’s highest court: term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, plus a constitutional amendment scuttling the court’s recent decision broadly shielding former presidents from criminal prosecution. Kamala Harris, his vice-president and would-be successor, quickly endorsed the proposals. But Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, accurately declared the plans “dead on arrival”. Republicans are disinclined to tinker with a Supreme Court delivering conservative victories. And the requisites for constitutional amendments—supermajorities of the states and in both houses of Congress—are hopelessly out of reach.

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