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Continue their call to expand the court despite this latest setback? according to this 200 page document, this report that just came out yesterday, the commission is suggesting that growing the size of the court would not achieve balance writing this "the risks of court expansion are considerable including that it could undermine the very goal of some of its proponents, restoring the courts legitimacy. however, the commission is open to term limits for justices writing a system of term limits wo...

They denounced court packing because its so extreme, so radical. its a very bad idea and joe bidens own court packing commission has come out and said the same. >> trace: its interesting. you say that the case load for the supreme court really does not justify court packing. explain that, if you can, for us, mike. >> justices used to write circuit. they used to get on their horses and travel around the country. they would divide the country by region. that ended in 1891. so theres just no justif...

Would not may any recommendations and draw any conclusions? et it seems to pretty clearly in this draft draw the conclusion that most reperforms to the supreme court are unwise and unwarranted. the report is very sour on the idea of court expansion, luke-warm on the idea of term limits passed by statute. pretty dubious about the idea of limiting the courts power over democratically enacted legislation. this is a report that essentially says, everything is more or less fine now. lets not tinker w...

Much. >> thank you, jim. we have this breaking news just in to cnn. cnn is learning that a british lawmaker has been stabbed, several times, during a meeting with constituents. david amos, a conservative member of parliament there, the target of this. police in essex say the stabbing happened just a couple of hours ago, around noon local time. officers were on scene shortly after and arrested a man, they also recovered a knife at the scene. they say they are not looking for any additional susp...

Do these bans violate the constitutional premise that we have all had that the federal government, no state government can interfere with a womans right to abortion until a fetus is viable. that is can live outside a woman. >> does roe v. wade survive. this broader debate about reforming the supreme court. president biden commissioned a commission. they have the recommendations. briefly what are they, and do they go anywhere? >> this is a commission that is going to please nobody. the conservati...

>> this commission from the very beginning has been an effort to provide joe biden cover from the far left and already criticizing it because they do want to pack the supreme court. that is deeply corrosive of the rule of law on most americans are strongly opposed to it. >> of what happens next? yesterday before the release of this, speaker pelosi dodged the question about they have already proved their negotiating power in congress in case they wanted to bring some legislation forward and didnt...

Length of service. justices serve in terms of however long they want as long as there is good behavior. they serve for life. thats in the constitution. it is interesting as term limits might be, and there are a lot of people who are supportive of that, justice breyer, maybe 18 years, it would probably take a constitutional amendment to get it done, right? >> again, here is a slight of hand this commission did. it is smart if you havent -- if youre not a reformer, if you havent been in this world...

Limits? the commission seemed to have some consensus that maybe term limits are a good idea, that would maybe change the content of the court more often. but then they looked at court packing, whether or not they should add more justices on the supreme court. there was a very mixed decision, they didnt think that was a good idea. and heres whats important to note. liberal justices themselves, the late ruth bader ginsburg, justice breyer who joan just interviewed, they dont think adding members t...

Talk to us about what the commission has been asked to look at, what you might be expecting to hear in what we should be careful to say is preliminary draft. >> yes. this commission, as you said grew out of calls basically for expanding the court in response to the conservatives and mitch mcconnells efforts to really put more conservative judges on the court in the federal judiciary in a generation, including the u.s. supreme court. there are a lot of calls to pack the court. instead of committi...

White house. the commission was tasked to study some potential changes to the high court. including expanding the number of justices or imposing term limits. to ideas floated by the far left hoping to tip the scales in their favor. the path for most proposed changes would have to go through congress where the thin majority as slim. president biden will not comment on the findings until he views the final report which is expected out in mid-november. >> we will see if may be little dribs and drab...