Biden Assails Supreme Court for ‘Extremism’ in Reform Push (1)

President Joe Biden assailed the conservative majority of the Supreme Court over its recent rulings, calling for new binding ethics rules and term limits for justices — a sweeping proposal that would fundamentally alter the top US court.

“Extremism is undermining the public confidence in the court’s decisions,” Biden said at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin on Monday, casting the changes as necessary to restore accountability to both the presidency and the court.

The president said in recent years the court had “undermined long established civil rights principles, and protections,” citing decisions to overturn Roe v. Wade ...