President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday, April 9, establishing a presidential commission on Supreme Court reform and appointing a panel to study reform of the U.S. Supreme Court. Media analysis suggests that Biden’s move may be intended to populate the high court with more liberal justices and eliminate the lifetime system for justices in order to advance his leftist agenda.
According to FoxNews.com, Biden had promised to form a high court reform commission after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death last October. And liberals have been urging an expansion of the Supreme Court to populate the conservative-leaning court with more liberal justices.
Because former President Trump’s (R-Texas) three justice appointments created a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, the court’s tilt toward conservatives opened up the possibility of the Supreme Court overturning the legalization of abortion and revoking gay rights. So far, however, the high court justices have been slow to move on those issues.
The White House said in a statement that Biden appointed a bipartisan panel of law professors, former judges and others familiar with the legal system and asked them to issue a report within 180 days of the first meeting.
The committee, in addition to discussing the controversy over whether the number of Supreme Court justices should be expanded, also has reformers wanting to impose term limits on Supreme Court justices. Currently, Supreme Court justices are appointed for life.
Historically, the U.S. Constitution does not specify how many justices the Supreme Court must have, and Congress has frequently changed the number of Supreme Court justices to achieve partisan ends. But since 1869, Congress has reduced the number of justices to the current nine. This is the first time the idea of adding more justices has been formally discussed since then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt failed in 1937 when he proposed to Congress a plan to add more justices.
The current justice, Stephen Breyer, said filling the high court could undermine public trust.
Kyle Becker, editor-in-chief of Becker News, commented that the only reason for such a commission would be to “fill” the Supreme Court with activist (liberal) justices to ensure that the nation’s highest court could not overrule unconstitutional measures such as executive orders on gun control. unconstitutional measures. “Now, the Biden administration has taken the first step toward that.”
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