‘Be Careful’: Gorsuch Responds To Biden’s Proposed Supreme Court Reforms

President Joe Biden should “be careful” with his proposal to reform the Supreme Court , Justice Neil Gorsuch suggested in a new interview.

The plan — which includes term limits, an enforceable ethics code, and a push for an amendment to crack down on presidential immunity — came up during an interview conducted by “Fox News Sunday” anchor Shannon Bream.

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“You are not in a bubble here at the courts. There are real-world events happening. The president has proposed now changes to the court, supported, it appears, by the vice president who looks like she’s going to be the Democratic nominee. How does the court feel about potential changes, term limits, ethics codes that are enforced by someone in ways that it isn’t now?” Bream asked.

Gorsuch, who was nominated to the high court by former President Donald Trump, replied, “Shannon, you are not going to be surprised that I’m not going to get into what’s now a political issue during a presidential election year. I don’t think that would be helpful.”

He added, “I have one thought to add: It is what the independent judiciary means — what does it mean to you as an American? It means that when you are unpopular, you can get a fair hearing under the law and under the Constitution. If you are in the majority, you don’t need judges and juries to hear you and protect your rights. You are popular! It’s there for the moments when the spotlight is on you, when the government’s coming after you. And don’t you want a ferociously independent judge and a jury of your peers to make those decisions? Isn’t that your right as an American? And so I just say, be careful.”

Biden released his proposal last week after he ended his re-election bid as a growing number of Democrats called on him to step aside following a fumbling debate performance that raised concerns about his mental acuity and electability. Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Biden chose to be his successor, has since clinched the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.

While Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has expressed openness to pursuing at least part of Biden’s proposed overhaul through legislation, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) responded by calling the plan “dead on arrival” in the House. Biden shot back, saying Johnson is “dead on arrival,” and faced backlash for the comment. Johnson replied by posting a clip to X from the debate that led to Biden dropping out. “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence,” Trump said of Biden in the video clip. “I don’t think he knows what he said either.”

‘Absolutely Necessary To The Upholding Of The West’: Ben Shapiro, Matt Fradd Highlight Importance Of Preserving Religious Values

In the latest “Sunday Special” episode, Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro discussed the importance of religious communities and traditional values in combating societal decline with Catholic author Matt Fradd.

During the wide-ranging interview, both Shapiro and Fradd agreed that religious communities play a crucial role in preserving traditional morality and family structures in the face of secularization. 

“When we talk about the West and Western civilization, a muscular pursuit of religious values — and in the West you’re talking about Christian values — is absolutely necessary to the upholding of the West,” Shapiro stated. “All the fundamental premises of the West are built on these Christian values.”

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Shapiro added that “the loss of community is the single greatest factor in the decline of religion,” highlighting how religious institutions historically provided economic support and fostered bonds across class divides. He emphasized that such community ties “cannot be duplicated” by government programs.

Fradd agreed, arguing that family life is so important that he encouraged couples to “get married before you’re ready, have more kids than you can afford, and then move into a bubble of other like-minded people and raise them in the faith.” 

“Of course, I could qualify all those things,” Fradd said. “Obviously, you should discern.”

He also clarified that by living in “a bubble,” he did not mean complete isolation, but rather living among those with shared values. 

“My 15-year-old daughter doesn’t have a cell phone, and it’s never really occurred to her to ask for one because we hang out with other homeschooling families who also, of course, wouldn’t give their child a smartphone,” Fradd said.

Shapiro concurred, stating: “I am very much the same way.” 

The conversation also touched on the topic of pornography, an issue Fradd has written a book on. He emphasized the need to educate children early about pornography, and said he points to specific words of Christ to battle the sinful practice. 

“I think the man who continually kind of gives over his life to pornography is becoming emasculated. He’s being robbed of the ability to be masculine,” Fradd said.

“I would look at Christ’s words, ‘So this is my body given up for you,’ and that this act was the most masculine act,” he added. “And it’s something that I should try to replicate with my own wife in that I deny myself for her good. But pornography trains a man, not to say this is my body given up for you, but the opposite: This is your body taken by me. I deny and forsake and trample over your dignity for the sake of my pleasure.”

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