Liberal author Fran Lebowitz called on President Biden to “dismantle” the Supreme Court during a discussion with “Real Time” host Bill Maher.
In an interview Saturday, Lebowitz, 73, railed against the high court, calling it “Trump’s harem” as he blasted the presidential immunity ruling in the case involving the former president.
“It is so shameful, this court, that it should not even be allowed to be called the Supreme Court,” she said. “It is not. It’s an insult to Motown to call it the Supreme Court. It’s not even a court… basically, it’s a harem. It’s Trump’s harem.
“When they passed that law, that decision, where they said ‘you are not the president, you are the king’, which is that decision, you can do whatever you want, you can never be held responsible. thought, ‘You know, Biden is still president. “No one seems to notice,” she said. “But I think Biden should dissolve the Supreme Court.”
Maher pushed back, “Disband the Supreme Court? Come on.”
“I’m the president, I’m the king now, like you said, and go home,” Lebowitz replied.
“Alright. Good to see you’re central, Maher quipped back before changing the subject.
The Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in the presidential immunity case against former President Trump in July, stating that a former president has substantive immunity from prosecution for official acts performed while in office, but not for unofficial acts.
The move by the conservative-dominated court — including three judges appointed by Trump — means the trial judge in the lower court case against Trump will now have to hold hearings on whether the charges against Trump were based on official acts by the president then or informal.
Trump celebrated the decision as “brilliantly written and wise” at the time, calling it a “huge victory for our Constitution and for democracy.”
President Biden labeled it a “dangerous precedent” as he called for new reforms to the Supreme Court, including term limits and a new code of conduct, and to draft a new constitutional amendment limiting presidential immunity.
Lebowitz, an author and speaker best known for her appearances on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” has a history of making extreme statements against Trump.
In 2019, she suggested on “Real Time” that impeachment was not enough to discipline Trump.
“Of course, he deserves to be blamed. I mean, getting fired is just the beginning of what he deserves. Not even scratching the surface of what it deserves,” Lebowitz said. “Every time I think about that and what he really deserves, I think, ‘We have to hand him over to the Saudis, you know, his friends. The same Saudis who got rid of that journalist, you know. Maybe they can do the same for him.”
Her remark was in reference to the 2018 killing of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi, who is believed to have been tortured and dismembered with a bone saw, apparently on the orders of the Saudi government.
She later apologized for the comments after facing backlash.
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