Supreme Court squeeze is on

OPINION:

President Joe Biden is expected to carry out a long-lived dream of the Democrats this week with an announced intent to term limit the justices at the U.S. Supreme Court and simultaneously undo, legislatively speaking, the recent SCOTUS ruling on immunity — the one that basically freed Donald Trump from some of the chains of criminal accusations the left threw his way to stop his presidential campaign.

Biden, to Democrats — to his Democrat handlers behind the scenes, to likely include Barack Obama — still has some blood to squeeze. He may not be seeking reelection, but he can still be used as a face to push far leftist agendas. Wind him up and watch him go. My, don’t Democrats love to exploit.

“This nation was founded on a simple yet profound principle: No one is above the law,” Biden wrote in an oped published — where else — in The Washington Post. “Not a president of the United States. Not a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. No one.”

I’m rubber, you’re glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you — if only Democrats were forced in this lifetime to abide their own words, to play by their own rules, to suffer the consequences of their own actions, to face accountability for doing exactly what they accuse. It’s not Trump who’s been the lawbreaker. The Biden crime family famously finger-points everywhere but inward.

“Biden Family’s Corruption Exposed,” America First Legal wrote of the investigation into Biden’s vice presidential withholding of records — records, AFL wrote, “that helped lead to the impeachment inquiring [of Trump] in the U.S. House of Representatives. Our litigation against the Biden Administration uncovered thousands of emails between the White House and Rosemont Seneca. Contrary to Joe Biden’s claim that there is an ‘absolute wall between the personal and private, and the government,’ the White House asserted executive privilege to withhold over 300 of the emails with ‘Seneca Global Advisors’ and ‘Rosemont Seneca’ in their entirety because ‘release would disclose confidential advice between the president and his advisors.”

No one is above the law, Biden says.

Not even a president of the United States, Biden says.

And if you believe that — then, boy, does his boy Hunter have some artwork to sell you. Or maybe a used laptop.

“New Information Shows CIA Contractors Colluded with the Biden Campaign to Discredit Hunter Biden Laptop Story,” the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government wrote in June.

Iceberg, meet tip.

There’s the discovery of Biden’s dump of classified documents in his Delaware home. There’s the matter of Biden’s years of influence peddling — resulting in the receipt by Biden and his cronies of “over $20 million in payments from foreign entities,” according to House Oversight Committee investigations. There’s that little thing called sexual assault, as accused of Biden by Tara Reade, a woman not-so-fondly known in Democrat circles as The Uncomfortable Truth because she causes a moral dilemma among leftists who scream “all women must be believed!” — except when they’re accusing Democrat presidents of the United States, that is.

For Biden — for Democrats — to advocate for less corrupt court systems is akin to Margaret Sanger giving parenting advice. 

“I have great respect for our institutions and separation of powers,” Biden wrote in his oped. “What is happening now is not normal and it undermines the public’s confidence in the court’s decisions, including those impacting personal freedoms. We now stand in a breach.”

Democrats and their wordplay.

Truth is, the immunity case decided 6-3 by the High Court simply clarified what the Democrats had been trying to convolute. The president of the United States has historically been exempt from criminal prosecution for acts he’s overseen or taken or executed during his time in the White House. The reasons for these exemptions are obvious: if presidents had to worry about prosecutions from political adversaries they would hesitate to take executive actions they thought best for the country and the citizens. Every president has enjoyed this immunity; all Democrats, all Republicans, have enjoyed this immunity while serving in the White House. It’s a no-brainer, actually.

But Democrats are desperate to get rid of Trump.

So they drummed up charges and fabricated offenses and feigned outrage over crimes of their own creations, and went after Trump to taint him in the courts. They used phrases like, “no man is above the law,” and “justice should be blind,” as a means of making their case to the American people that presidents, even presidents, yes, even Donald Trump as president, ought to be held accountable to the same laws as Joe and Jane Citizen — hoping that along the way of singing these fabulous phrases that the American people would forget a) Trump hadn’t committed any crime, and b) Trump wasn’t getting special treatment for crimes — since he hadn’t committed any, and c) — and this is the most important one — that in all the furor of court drama over Trump’s supposed crimes, that the American people would forget about Team Biden’s own criminal and unethical behaviors.

Biden’s pursuit of Supreme Court reform is simply the lame-duck move of all the far leftists, led undoubtedly by Obama, who’ve corrupted the Democrat Party, and who see Puppet President Joe as possessed of one last play before he exits, stage left.

“One part of Biden’s three-fold proposal [for court reform] directly responds to the immunity decision, which handed a major win to former President Trump by dooming some elements of his criminal prosecutions,” The Hill wrote.

Yep. That’s what it’s all about. The Democrats cannot suffer Republican wins, and they cannot stomach another Trump presidency. So they will attack, attack, attack the systems to change them to the point where the conservative and MAGA agenda and mindset is killed forevermore. 

This is Obama’s promise to change the foundations of America, in real time. Biden, in all his lame glory, is the tool by which Democrats hope to accomplish their ultimate court win.

• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on X @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE  or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.