Biden s pick for Ninth Circuit would be court s first AAPI judge from Oregon
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals courthouse in San Francisco. President Biden has nominated Jennifer Sung of Oregon to be the court’s newest judge.Gabrielle Lurie/The Chronicle
Jennifer Sung, a labor official in Oregon and a longtime labor lawyer and former union organizer, was nominated by President Biden on Wednesday to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, his first selection for the nation’s largest federal appeals court.
Sung was appointed by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown in 2017 to the state’s Employment Relations Board, which referees labor disputes for public and private employees in the state. Before that, she was a labor lawyer in Portland for four years and in San Francisco for the preceding six years.
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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President Biden will today issue an executive order forming the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, comprised of a bipartisan group of experts on the Court and the Court reform debate. In addition to legal and other scholars, the Commissioners includes former federal judges and practitioners who have appeared before the Court, as well as advocates for the reform of democratic institutions and of the administration of justice. The expertise represented on the Commission includes constitutional law, history and political science.
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 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
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