Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has big plans for the Supreme Court and federal judiciary if Democrats win the 2024 elections, from imposing ethical standards and preventing litigants from “shopping” for friendly judges to legislatively reversing its rulings on abortion and presidential immunity.
“It’s a very big priority,” Schumer, D-N.Y. told NBC News in an interview Thursday before the Senate left for a five-week summer recess. “I feel very strongly for the sake of the republic, we need reform in the courts.”
Schumer said Republicans have devised a “brilliant but destructive” scheme to get the courts to enact a “hard right” agenda for which they can’t find public support. “They spent three decades trying to take over the courts,” he said. “They’ve achieved it.”
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