re: Biden Creating Commission to Look Into Packing the Supreme Court

Why aren't the Repubs challenging all of these bullspit EOs in lower courts?

Manchin and Synema are against this, right?

Congrats on all of this

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Committees are where ideas go to die.

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Agreed, until it makes real traction it's just a trial balloon

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RBG was a firm proponent of NOT packing the court.

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She said:

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"Nine seems to be a good number. It's been that way for a long time. ... I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the court."

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Laurence Tribe is on the commission

President Biden signed an executive order Friday establishing a commission to study whether to add seats to the Supreme Court and other reform proposals, the White House announced, fulfilling a promise he made on the campaign trail.

The commission will be chaired by former White House counsel Bob Bauer and Cristina Rodriguez, a Yale law school professor and former deputy assistant attorney general, and largely consists of academics and former officials from across the political spectrum.

It will delve into the issue of potentially expanding the court — an idea that has been floated by some progressives but heavily criticized by Republicans — and which Biden himself has been cool to, though without explicitly ruling out the option.

“The Commission’s purpose is to provide an analysis of the principal arguments in the contemporary public debate for and against Supreme Court reform, including an appraisal of the merits and legality of particular reform proposals,” the White House said in a release. “The topics it will examine include the genesis of the reform debate; the Court’s role in the Constitutional system; the length of service and turnover of justices on the Court; the membership and size of the Court; and the Court’s case selection, rules, and practices.”

The White House said that the commission will hold public meetings to hear arguments from experts and interested parties. It will be required to complete a report on its work within 180 days of its first public meeting.

The commission will be composed of 36 members, including constitutional scholars and academics like Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe and New York University professor Richard Pildes.

The group includes a number of prominent conservatives, including Jack Balkin, a constitutional law professor at Yale, Thomas Griffith, a former federal judge appointed by President George W. Bush, and Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard law school professor who served in legal positions at the Justice Department and Defense Department under the Bush administration.

Other members include Sherrilyn Ifill, the president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund; Michael Waldman, president of NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice; and Walter Dellinger, a former assistant attorney general and acting solicitor general with a lengthy legal resume.

Biden in October said he was “not a fan" of the so-called court-packing option, a proposal to expand the number of seats on the court as a way to dilute the influence of conservative majority. Six of the nine justices on the court are now conservative jurists.

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It is a done deal, this is all I need to know...

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Let's see who all is appointed to fill the remainder of the seats.

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Nah, we already know the answer to that.

Said this so moderates wouldn't be swayed.

Biden himself has said he’s “not a fan” of so-called court-packing — adding additional seats to the Supreme Court in order to alter its ideological balance — and held up the commission as a more conscientious approach to studying the issue.

“The last thing we need to do is turn the Supreme Court into just a political football, whoever has the most votes gets whatever they want,” Biden told “60 Minutes” in October. “Presidents come and go. Supreme Court justices stay for generations."

This is why Proggies want Breyer gone.

Earlier this week, Breyer issued a warning to advocates of overhauling the Supreme Court that doing so risks eroding the trust in the institution and that they should think “long and hard” about the ramifications in a speech given virtually to Harvard Law School students.

The White House said the commission will complete its work within 180 days of its first public meeting, which it is required to do under federal law. LINK

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Let's see who all is appointed to fill the remainder of the seats.

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Where’s the evidence that even studying this might possibly be a “bipartisan” notion or idea in any way whatsoever?