U.S. President Joe Biden is weighing sweeping proposals to reshape the Supreme Court, including the establishment of term limits for the nine justices who now hold lifetime appointments and enacting an enforceable ethics code. According to U.S. news accounts, Biden told members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus last weekend, “I’m going to need your help on the Supreme Court, because I’m about to come out … I don’t want to prematurely announce it, but I’m about to come out with a major initiative on limiting the court and what we do.” Biden added, “I’ve been working with constitutional scholars for the last three months, and I need some help.” Biden once was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that held confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominees named by U.S. presidents. He has long been considered an institutionalist and resisted suggestions to enlarge the size of the court and appoint more liberals to undercut the current 6-3 conservative majority. Biden does not appear to have changed his mind in opposition to enlarging the court  But any changes he does suggest during his presidential election campaign against former President Donald Trump assuredly would not be enacted immediately, given the slim majority Democrats hold in the Senate and…Read more