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President Joe Biden is creating the wrong commission to solve the wrong problem regarding the federal judiciary.
Actually, it’s worse than that: Biden is solving nothing, but instead risks ruining something that actually works well and in doing so will undermine faith in the American system of justice and further violate his bad-faith promise to run a “unifying” administration.
Biden’s 36-member commission would take 180 days to analyze whether to expand the size of the Supreme Court from its long-standing number of nine justices and also whether to impose some sort of term limits on justices. While the commission will issue no recommendations, its “report” will certainly be used by advocates of court expansion as justification for “packing” the court along the lines of what President Franklin Roosevelt tried, but blessedly failed, to do in 1937.