President Joe Biden has established the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, which will look at various “reforms,” such as court-packing. Pictured: The Supreme Court building as seen on Feb. 22. (Photo: Ting Shen/Xinhua/Getty Images)
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Thomas Jipping is deputy director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
Today, President Joe Biden signed an executive order creating the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. The White House announcement and the members chosen for this commission raise serious questions about its real purpose and concerns about its impact on the independence of the judiciary.