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Is the Supreme Court too partisan? Here s what 3 reform proposals would do
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In the closing days of the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden pledged in an interview with CBS News 60 Minutes that he would form a bipartisan commission of constitutional scholars to recommend options for reforming the U.S. Supreme Court and federal judiciary.
The idea of overhauling the makeup of the high court gained traction among progressives after the contentious and partisan confirmation fights over Justices Neil Gorsuch in 2017 and Brett Kavanaugh a year later, and especially after Republicans pushed through the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg right before the 2020 election solidifying a 6-3 conservative majority.
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January 20, 2021 SHARE
Election Day turned into Election Week, then two months of corrosion, court cases, controversy and, ultimately, tragedy in the citadel of U.S. democracy.
America continues to suffer from the pandemic, from economic fallout and mass unemployment, from social and political fissures.
Amid this backdrop, change arrives in two of the three branches of the U.S. government: President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as well as a new cabinet assumes control upon the Jan. 20 inauguration, and a retooled Congress, with both the House of Representatives and Senate either closely or evenly split among Republicans and Democrats.