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White House establishes commission to study the Supreme Court — but it won’t make final recommendations for reform A 36-member commission the White House established to study the US Supreme Court will not make final recommendations for reform, according to details released Friday, a possible letdown for liberals hoping for President Joe Biden to push for more justices on the bench. The long-awaited commission announcement developed from a pledge Biden made as a candidate last October, as liberals were calling for additional seats to be added to America’s high court, to try to bring grea...

Associated Press PANEL FORMED — security fencing surrounds the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Joe Biden on Friday, ordered a study of adding seats to the Supreme Court, creating a bipartisan commission that will spend the next 180 days examining the incendiary political issues of expanding the court and instituting term limits for justices on the highest bench. — Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has ordered a study on overhauling the Supreme Court, creating a bipartisan commission Friday that will spend the next six months examini...

Biden Names Panel to Weigh Bigger Supreme Court, Term Limits Bloomberg 1 day ago © Bloomberg The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (Bloomberg) -- President Joe Biden on Friday named a panel to study possible changes to the U.S. Supreme Court, including calls for term limits and more justices, fulfilling a campaign promise as progressives push to overhaul a court they say has been unfairly stacked with conservatives. The 36-member commission will consist heavily of academics, along with a handful of former judges and courtroom advocates. The co-chairs, former White House Counsel Bob ...

Biden orders a study of Supreme Court expansion and term limits Security fencing surrounds the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill last month. President Biden created a bipartisan commission that will examine the political issues of expanding the court and instituting term limits. (Patrick Semansky / Associated Press) Associated Press WASHINGTON —  President Biden has ordered a study on overhauling the Supreme Court, creating a bipartisan commission Friday that will spend the next six months examining the politically incendiary issues of expanding the court and instituting term...

The commission will be chaired by former White House counsel Bob Bauer and Cristina Rodríguez, a Yale law school professor and former deputy assistant attorney general, and largely consists of academics and former officials from across the political spectrum.  It will delve into the issue of potentially expanding the court — an idea that has been floated by some progressives but heavily criticized by Republicans — and which Biden himself has been cool to, though without explicitly ruling out the option. ADVERTISEMENT “The Commission’s purpose is to provide an analysis of the princi...