 Views & Opinions |
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President Biden's plan to implement Supreme Court term limits is "an excellent idea," writes Northwestern University law professor Steven Lubet. "But it doesn't go far enough." |
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Biden had long avoided confronting the Supreme Court. Only with its recent decision declaring former presidents almost totally immune from prosecution for criminal acts committed while in office was Biden spurred to action. Biden's reform proposal includes term limits for all new justices, "a constitutional amendment eliminating presidential immunity and a binding code of conduct for the Supreme Court." But expanding the court is "the most important and effective possible reform," says Lubet. What's more, it could be implemented by statute rather than via the constitutional amendment. Republicans are dead set against expanding the court. But their intransigence may not last, and so "the time to begin laying the groundwork is now." Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Tuesday, August 6. I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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By Juan Williams, Fox News political analyst |
The only defense of this court comes from right-wing opinion leaders, who argue that Biden simply dislikes decisions made by a conservative majority court. But they are closing their eyes to genuine public concern. |
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By Glenn Altschuler, Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Emeritus Professor of American Studies at Cornell University |
The lesson for 2024 is that, in a presidential race where a candidate is closely tied to the current administration, tone, timing and subtle signaling can move voters as much or more than definitive policy pronouncements. |
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By Joseph Azam, board chair of the Afghan-American Foundation |
In the coming weeks, Harris has an opportunity to distinguish herself from Trump and to reckon with one of the most noxious policy decisions of the Biden presidency by signaling a willingness to do something neither man was up to doing on Afghanistan: the right thing. |
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By Sheldon Jacobson, professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
The 13 keys have been enormously successful in forecasting presidential elections. The approach uses pattern recognition to match what has occurred in the past with what is occurring in the present to infer how the incumbent party should fare in the election. In today's vernacular, this is an application of artificial intelligence, with past elections serving as data by which the pattern recognition model learns. |
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