Biden, Harris, and the Future of Court Reform (TEASER)

Hey everyone, this is Leon from Prologue Projects.

On this subscriber-only episode of 5-4, Peter, Rhiannon, and Michael are talking about President Biden's proposals to reform the Supreme Court.

President Biden had already said that he wants to spend his remaining months in office working on bold reform to the United States Supreme Court.

Today, he finally spelled out what that means.

He called for three specific changes.

Republicans have said Biden's proposals are dead on arrival.

Are they?

And are Peter, Rhiannon, and Michael impressed?

This is 5-4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.

Welcome to 5-4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have intruded on our civic life, like town inspectors intruding on my property.

I'm back with more home ownership bullshit.

I'm here with Rhiannon.

Hey.

And Michael.

Hey, everybody.

He's a NIMBY.

Yeah.

Last week I got cocky because you guys were like, oh, no HOA.

And I was like, nah, no HOA.

I found out the trade-off is that the random people in the town government believe that they can treat me like I'm not a human being.

Surf.

Not only did I get some of the rudest emails of my entire life because they didn't have like our deed or whatever, but I acted like I was like committing fraud upon the town

rather than like someone forgot to email it or whatever.

But also a town inspector came to check out our property and like I didn't know who it was.

So like there's a man in my backyard and I went out.

And when I tell you this man did not look at me.

I was like, hello, sir.

Are you?

And eventually I piece it together and was like, are you from the town?

And he was like, yeah.

But again, no eye contact.

I'm a Republican now.

This is is insane.

I should be able to kill that guy.

That's my,

that's how I'm starting to feel.

Anyway.

This is what property ownership does to the mind, right?

Right.

Yeah.

I'm really into preventing crime now.

And

I believe that if someone walked into my property, I should have the right to escalate to incredible violence.

Peter, have you heard about the caravan amassing at the border?

They're coming for regular property owners like myself.

All right.

So today's episode is about the state of court reform.

We've been covering the cases from the end of the term, and we're not entirely done.

But

while we've been doing that, a lot has happened.

In mid-July, Joe Biden, in the death throes of both his presidential campaign and his human life, proposed what he described as a major court reform initiative.

This was pretty clearly a last-ditch effort to inject some energy into his campaign, which of course didn't work.

And then everyone sort of stopped talking about it because Joe Biden is no longer running for president.

But we thought it was worth taking a look at because we think we should be discussing the state of Supreme Court reform, discussing the failures of the Biden administration, and talk a little bit about what the future may hold given the rise of Kamala Harris.

Yeah, I think the discourse right now broadly, right, is about the Democratic Party, what Kamala Harris' presidential campaign means for the party, what does it mean for the party that Joe Biden kind of stepped aside, that kind of thing.

But what you haven't gotten a lot from the campaign on is like, what is the platform?

And the DNC is ongoing right now, but I think it's really really good for us to kind of talk about like where is the Supreme Court, where is court reform in all of this.

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