In an extinction burst of his lame-duck presidency, the outgoing Joe Biden is proposing a slew of progressive plans that are dead on arrival but serve to satisfy his delusion that he’s the most consequential president since Franklin Roosevelt. Biden’s latest stab at an entry on the left-wing Christmas list arrived in Monday’s Washington Post, where he endorsed amending the Constitution and imposing new term limits and ethics restrictions on the justices of the Supreme Court. Because Orange Man Bad, or something.

“But the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision on July 1 to grant presidents broad immunity from prosecution for crimes they commit in office means there are virtually no limits on what a president can do,” Biden wrote. “The only limits will be those that are self-imposed by the person occupying the Oval Office. If a future president incites a violent mob to storm the Capitol and stop the peaceful transfer of power — like we saw on Jan. 6, 2021 — there may be no legal consequences.”

While Biden thinks he’s only referring to the bench’s latest decision that presidents have legal immunity for action in conjunction with the official duties of the presidency — crimes committed unrelated to the presidency are still entirely fair game for prosecutors, according to the 6-3 majority — Biden is conveniently forgetting that the Supreme Court has already doled out consequences to Donald Trump. It’s not just that the high court refused to throw out the criminal cases against Trump, which it theoretically could have done if its sole goal were to placate the former president. In the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election, the Supreme Court denied literally every single lawsuit Trump brought to the bench in the hopes of challenging the results.

Prior to Jan. 6, 2021, the Supreme Court had already denied Trump’s request to expedite consideration of his challenges to Wisconsin’s election results, Rep. Mike Kelly’s (R-PA) request to block the certification of Pennsylvania’s results, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit to bar Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin from casting their Electoral College votes in support of Biden. Although Justice Samuel Alito joined Justice Clarence Thomas in disagreeing with the court’s denial to hear Paxton’s case, not one of the three justices appointed by Trump diverged from the majority.

The day after the disgraceful storming of the Capitol, the Supreme Court denied then-Rep. Louie Gohmert’s lawsuit against then-Vice President Mike Pence. On Jan. 11, the Supreme Court denied motions to expedite four cases brought by Trump allies against the election results in Michigan, Arizona, and Georgia. The court dismissed Pennsylvania and Arizona challenges on Feb. 22, rejected an emergency petition by Trump attorney Sidney Powell on March 1, and declined another outstanding Pennsylvania case on April 19.

Of the 44 votes cast in 13 cases election cases brought to the federal judiciary, only one vote favored Trump, with 97% of Republican appointees voting against Trump according to the liberal Brookings Institution. A full 83% of Supreme Court votes cast across the election challenges were against Trump, his campaign, or his allies.

The Supreme Court has continued to rule in a far more “bipartisan” manner than Congress, and not just on matters relating to Trump. Half of the 62 cases brought before the court in the recently completed term were either decided unanimously (25 cases), with only one dissenting opinion (two cases), or categorically dismissed or vacated per curiam (four). Of the other half of those cases, two-thirds were indeed decided with 6-3 votes, but only half of which were decided on the allegedly common breakdown of Alito, Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, and Trump’s appointees versus the three justices appointed by Democratic presidents.

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Furthermore, a New York Times analysis found that in divided cases, it is the Democratic appointees who agree more with each other (81%) than the supposedly furthest right-wing third of Alito, Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch (59%). And Trump’s administration lost more cases than it won when it brought cases to the bench, with a mere 42% success rate compared to Biden’s 54% success rate.

The Supreme Court has constrained Trump repeatedly throughout his presidency and thwarted his attempts to stay in office after he lost in 2020. Biden is merely livid that it didn’t stop the former president from running for office again, nor did it allow Biden to bypass Congress to spend half a trillion dollars on bailing out student loans to buy the 2024 election.