In what appears to be a last gasp of his presidency, President Joe Biden recently lashed out against the Supreme Court and proposed two major reforms to the judicial body -- the imposition of term limits and a binding code of conduct.

Unfortunately for Biden, his ideas have not been well-received by Republicans, as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) declared the proposals to be "dead on arrival" if they ever reached the House.

That same "dead on arrival" descriptor was also used by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in his reaction to the outgoing Democratic president's plan to overhaul the nation's highest court.

Biden proposes reforms for Supreme Court

In an op-ed this week for The Washington Post, President Biden excoriated the Supreme Court for certain rulings he disagreed with and perpetuated the media-manufactured controversy over unproven allegations of corruption and ethics violations.

Biden put forward three separate proposed reforms, the first of which involved a constitutional amendment to strip former presidents of any immunity from prosecution for alleged crimes committed while in office.

As for the Supreme Court, he called for a binding and enforceable code of conduct and for 18-year term limits, to be staggered so that a vacancy would come open every two years for the president and Senate at that time to nominate and confirm a replacement.

Johnson says Biden's reform proposals are "dead on arrival"

In response to that op-ed, Speaker Johnson wrote in an X post, "President Biden’s proposal to radically overhaul the U.S. Supreme Court would tilt the balance of power and erode not only the rule of law, but the American people’s faith in our system of justice."

"This proposal is the logical conclusion to the Biden-Harris Administration and Congressional Democrats’ ongoing efforts to delegitimize the Supreme Court. Their calls to expand and pack the Court will soon resume," he continued.

"It is telling that Democrats want to change the system that has guided our nation since its founding simply because they disagree with some of the Court’s recent decisions," Johnson added. "This dangerous gambit of the Biden-Harris Administration is dead on arrival in the House."

McConnell "disappointed" in Biden's "unacceptable" proposals

A similar response came from Sen. McConnell, according to The Hill, who said of his former Senate colleague from Delaware, "I couldn’t be more disappointed. This is a man who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee for a long time. He absolutely knows what he recommended is unconstitutional, to try to limit the terms of the Supreme Court justices who under the Constitution are appointed for life."

"That shows you the depth to which they have gone lately to attack the Supreme Court because they don’t like the current makeup of the court and decisions they disapprove of," he continued more broadly of Democrats.

The way to alter the composition of the Supreme Court "is to win the presidency and the Senate and appoint people that you like, but not to try to break -- break -- the Supreme Court," McConnell added. "This is a level that I think is just simply unacceptable. I know he knows better, and such a proposal would be dead on arrival in Congress."

Former AG Barr warns "reforms" are just a leftist attack on court's legitimacy

Also weighing in on the matter in a joint op-ed for Fox News was former Attorney General Bill Barr, who warned, "While current proposals like term limits for the longest-serving justices and an imposed code of ethics threaten the Constitution and the separation of powers, the far left is demanding that Court be packed with additional liberal justices. Whoever the Democrat nominee for President is, if they win, that is exactly what will happen, and it only takes a majority vote and the signature of the President."

"In truth, 'court reform' is nothing more than a desperate attack to subvert the legitimacy of the Supreme Court because it contains a majority of justices committed to the Constitution and originalism," he added later. "If this coup succeeds, the rule of law will be over as the judiciary will become little more than a political tool of whomever holds power."