https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/09/biden-supreme-court-reform-commission-480582 President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday empaneling a commission to examine possible reforms to the Supreme Court and federal judiciary, making good on a campaign trail promise sparked by his predecessor's tilting of the federal bench. Biden himself has said he’s “not a fan” of so-called court-packing — adding additional seats to the Supreme Court in order to alter its ideological balance — and held up the commission as a more conscientious approach to studying the issue. Many are saying we need to increase the number of justices to match the number of district courts (13) since we have increased the number from the number previously set (9). This would definitely address some of the more recent partisan plays and manipulation. Will this lead to an ever escalating increase to the number of seats and is this a reasonable action to address some questionable actions. One thing this proves — shenanigans beget shenanigans. Something does need to be done to preserve the integrity of the court however. As it stands it is too rapidly altered with partisans. The commission will also review structural reforms on nominations, perhaps to prevent refusing to seat a justice for a year (for a two term popular president) and then seating one in a matter of weeks (for a two time impeached and soon to be removed president).
Wouldn't mind seeing a little PAY BACK for that disgraceful ramming of hard-rightie coney-barrett down our throats DAYS before last year's election...
Guess who said this? Really, take a guess. “I have this strange notion, we are a democracy ... if you can’t get the votes … you can’t [legislate] by executive order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy. We need consensus.”
I'm not well-versed in how this works. Is this something that the next POTUS can just undo or would it remain at X number until it's changed again?
Congress sets the number. It would have nothing to do with a president. More than likely they will be pushing for changes on the manner of nominations to prevent another McConnell stunt.
No. But what they did was because of obstruction and refusal to govern. What Republicans did was a power grab and had nothing to do with obstruction on the part of Democrats.
Since when is this the purview of the Executive branch? "The Commission's purpose is to provide an analysis of the principal arguments in the contemporary public debate for and against Supreme Court reform, including an appraisal of the merits and legality of particular reform proposals," the White house said in a statement. "The topics it will examine include the genesis of the reform debate; the Court's role in the Constitutional system; the length of service and turnover of justices on the Court; the membership and size of the Court; and the Court's case selection, rules, and practices." The Executive branch has NO constitutional authority to tell the Judicial Branch howbit will conduct it's business and it's rules and case selection. Did he even bother to appoint the Chief Justice to the commission? And it is the Legislative branch that has the sole power to determine the size of the court, but that's all and that has been settled for decades no need to change it. And Biden has been in government for almost 50 years and he has to have another commission to tell him what to think? On almost every issue his go to when asked about issues and policies is he is going to form a commission so he can avoid taking a stand and blaming any results on someone else.
POTUS has NO say in the matter and the Judicial Branch does not report to him. Where is Chief Justice Roberts voicing his constitutional objection to this attempted power grab?
Biden absolutely has the authority to implement a commission to study anything he so desires. He also isn’t telling anyone how to do anything. After 50 years in government hopefully Biden has learned that experts hold far more knowledge and understanding than one person, even if they are the president. This is one of the many hundreds of reasons why he was elected.
What authority does he have over the Judicial Branch? What authority does he have to tell them what cases to take, and how to conduct their busy. They are CO-EQUAL branches one does not run the other. How about the Supreme Court forming a commission so it can reform the Presidency? And thank you for admitting that after 50 years in government Biden still doesn't understand how it works and the Constitution. He certainly seemed to know back when he was TOTALLY and UNEQUICALLY against changing the make up of the court.
WRONG. As was mentioned earlier in the thread, Biden is free to set up a "Commission to study" anything that he wants. And, in this case, it seems clear that (regardless of the Committee's Findings") the Court will stay at 9 Members. So, why worry?
Power grabs are partisan gerrymandering of districts so politicians choose their voters instead of voters choosing the politician or refusing to carry out the duties of congress because you want to pack the courts. Creating a commission to improve a process is not a power grab.
What part of the constitution do you believe he is violating? Specific amendment please. Again, and I am not sure why this keeps having to be explained, he is not making any changes.
A "commission", eh? Reckon someone's pals need some extra pocket change, about all that it'll amount to in the end.
The real issue here is that Liberals are simply unwilling and incapable of living with a conservative SCOTUS. It's to be expected that we live under a Liberal SCOTUS forever, since the Liberal Way of course is the only way that "progress" is made.(Please sense my internet sarcasm on that garbage take by Liberals.) The question to ask Liberals is: Conservatives did live under a Liberal SCOTUS, and held their nose. Why can't the Liberals do the same?
She was nominated and voted on. Tough crap you fascist libos do not like it. This is our country not some game we are playing to get your idiot heroes more power.
Can you understand why liberals (or anyone not conservative really) could be upset about how that conservative majority happened? Republicans refused to even allow the process to occur with one, citing they should let the people choose, even though the people did — twice. The second retired under unusual circumstances The third was rushed trough with an election a week away, the people spoke and by a significant margin decided this is not want they wanted.
And — as per the constitution — congress can add 200 more justices. Yet the same people saying it is “tough” are in this thread whining. Strange.