Sen. Warren: The Supreme Court is ‘actively undermining’ democracy
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Sunday that the Supreme Court is “actively undermining” democracy in the U.S.
Warren said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that she and her colleagues are working to put together reform measures for the Supreme Court, including looking at term limits and adding more justices to the bench. She echoed President Biden’s comments calling for reforms to the Supreme Court in his last six months of office.
“Here’s a man who has been a transformative president. He’s gotten an enormous amount done, and yet, he has stepped away and he has passed the torch to Kamala Harris,” Warren said, referring to Biden. “Why has he done that? He’s done it as an act of patriotism for our nation. And he is saying we not only have to have a president who is here for the nation and who will heal us and bring us together, we also have to change our Supreme Court.”
“Because right now, we have a Supreme Court that has basically jumped the guardrails and is out there giving power to the president, saying that the president can commit any act that the president wants, saying that Congress cannot authorize agencies to act. So we’ve got a Supreme Court that is actively undermining our democracy,” she continued. [Continue reading…]