By Craig Bannister | April 9, 2021 | 2:56pm EDT
Sen. Joe Biden in 1983
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On Friday, President Joe Biden announced creation of a commission to explore expanding the Supreme Court (“Court Packing”), which would allow him to appoint additional justices and shift the balance of the Court – but, he didn’t always think this was a good idea.
When Republican Ronald Reagan was president in 1983, then-Senator Joe Biden (D-Delaware) declared the concept of court-packing a “bonehead idea” and a “terrible, terrible mistake.”
During a 1983 Senate hearing, Biden likened Reagan’s efforts to replace members of a commission to Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s court-packing push, a Fox News report explains:
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