President Joe Biden has proposed a Constitutional amendment that would remove immunity for presidents currently serving in office.
During his farewell address, Biden went over a plethora of changes that he feels needs to be made.
“You know, the years ahead … it can be up to the president, the presidency, the Congress, the courts, the free press, and the American people, to confront these powerful forces. We must reform the tax code, not be giving the biggest tax cuts to billionaires but by beginning to make them pay their fair share,” Biden said.
Biden added that “dark money” needs to be taken out of politics, members of Congress need to be ban stock trading while they are working for their constituents, and a term limit for U.S. Supreme Court Justices.
“We need to get dark money; that’s that hidden funding behind too many campaign contributions,” Biden said, “We need to get it out of our politics. We need to enact an 18-year time limit, term limit, time and term … for our Supreme Court. We need to ban members of Congress from trading stock while they’re in the Congress.”
Biden then said immunity for sitting presidents should be removed via a constitutional amendment because “no president is immune from crimes.”
“We need to amend the Constitution and make clear that no president, no president is immune from crimes that he or she commits while in office. The president’s power is not a limit, it’s not absolute. And it shouldn’t be,” Biden said.
Remaining “engaged in the process” of politics was further encouraged by Biden, who said the concentration of “power and wealth” causes distrust and disillusionment but added everyone deserves a “fair shot.”
“In a democracy, there’s another danger – the concentration of power and wealth. In a road to sense of unity and common purpose, it causes distrust and division,” Biden said, “Participating in democracy is exhausting and even disillusioning, people don’t feel like they have a fair shot, we have to stay engaged in the process. I know it’s frustrating. A fair shot is what makes America, America. Everyone’s entitled to a fair shot, not a guarantee, but just a fair shot, an even playing field, going as far as your hard work and talent can take you.”
