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The courts on the right four years, you are seeing it now among liberals and progressives and democrats. reforms such as term limits, eight year term recognizing that no one should have too much power for too long, or a binding ethics code for the supreme court, these are things that have i think the best chance of actually moving public opinion and bringing some accountability to the court. you heard that president biden is not enthusiastic about court expansion and i think that some of these o...

Never get there, they thought they would be able to trim back on the right to access to abortion, trump back on the use of affirmative action in higher education but not to actually overturn them wholesale as we have seen in the last year, this is the result of three appointees by preside gorsuch, y of the right right now when it comes to the court, doesnt mean that theyre winning everything just the other day the court ruled against conservative complaint, conservative side in the voting congre...

To reclaim this court to the way we think it should function. you are hearing that from the left. a number of democrat members are putting together legislation or pushing something they already proposed that has to do with term limits or building out the court with additional seats. >> mike: shannon, thank you for your time. you have presidential candidate nikki haley and a congressman from massachusetts. should be a spirited show. >> see you then. thanks, mike. >> sandra: and we will all be wat...

You sanction messages that you may personally disagree with. its a violation of your free speech right. so clearly they disagreed with that, they are couching it as youll be able to deny service to people based on their status as a member of the lgbtq community, the court says its not that, you have to serve everybody who comes in but you cannot force them to endorse a message that violates their first amendment rights. >> mike: and the president was asked about the high court, here is what he h...

That. >> when you argue that legacy should go away too. if affirmtive action goes away, why not legacy. >> it depends if jesse is going to trinity. >> i knew he was going to say that. >> you should look at class. theres so many poor white americans that denied opportunities just as the way black americans are because they dont have the income. they dont have the access to elite schools in order to spring from a private boarding school into harvard. you have to accept that. the supreme court is n...

Fort Wayne City Council appointees to boards and commissions now have term limits.

Message from the presidents never discussed business dealings with his son. well see where they take that. former speaker nancy pelosi is backing calls for new supreme court rules, ben. the court now has a 6-3 conservative majority. >> they certainly should be term limits and if nothing else there should be some ethical rules that would be followed. its shameful how thomas and alito have been so cavalier about their violations of what would be expected of a justice of the supreme court. >> sandr...

The former House speaker also argued that the Supreme Court should face ethics regulations as well.

Changes, reforms, term limits? and expansion? >> its been over 150 years since weve had an expansion of the court. it wasnt the time of lincoln that it went up to nine. so the subject of whether that should happen is a discussion. its not a rallying cry. but its a discussion. the president formed a commission, they did not recommend expansion of the court, that shouldnt be the end of it. but there certainly should be term limits. there certainly should be >> -- and if nothing else, there should ...

A citizen effort is underway to get a binding referendum on this November’s ballot in New Bedford that would call for term limits for city councilors.