Although President Joe Biden has issued an executive order to establish a commission to examine the "membership and size" of the U.S. Supreme Court, it is worth noting that Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020), one of the most liberal justices who served on the high court, said in 2019 that packing the court with more judges "would make the court look partisan."
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President Biden signed an executive order today which sets up a new commission to study changes to the Supreme Court, including the possibility of expanding/packing it. The full order is posted on the White House website. It creates a commission of 36 members all of whom are considered experts in the legal field. The group will have up to 180 days to submit a report which looks at specific reform proposals and which will include public comment. The full list of members is here. Most of them aren’t household names but a few, like Harvard’s Laurence Tribe, are familiar. There’s no need to guess where he stands on court packing:
Republican and Democrats have slammed Joe Biden s announcement
They have said it is divisive , brainless , a radical left ploy and a power grab
Biden established commission to examine expanding the Supreme Court Friday
Move would wipe out conservative majority on the bench formed under Trump
Mitch McConnell said it was more evidence of the far-left s influence on Biden
Mitt Romney said it would forever diminish institutions at our foundation
Rep. Marsha Blackburn said Democrats will destroy institutions to seize power
Nikki Haley said: Court packing is undemocratic, divisive, and brainless
The panel of 36 legal scholars is made up of both liberals and conservatives
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Justice Breyer thinks court-stacking is a bad idea so the leftists want him gone
The hard-left progressives/Democrat socialists want Justice Breyer to retire. Why, since he’s a reliable liberal? The reason is he disagreed with their latest huge power grab.
Justice Breyer gave a speech to Harvard Law School students and alumni earlier this week when he warned that court-packing could harm the rule of law in the U.S.
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“Proposals have been recently made to increase the number of Supreme Court justices. I’m sure that others will discuss related political arguments,” he said. “This lecture reflects my own effort to be certain that those who are going to debate these questions … also consider an important institutional point. Consider it. Namely, how would court-packing reflect and affect the rule of law itself?”