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April 10th, 2021 
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President Biden has signaled that court-packing might be on the table.
On Friday he signed exectuve order to create a bipartisan commission that will study structural changes to the Supreme Court and gave the group 180 days to produce a report on a range of topics including court expansion and term limits.
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Conservatives had warned before the 2020 election that Biden would “pack” the Supreme Court to create a permanent liberal majority. Now, it looks like Biden has taken the first step towards expanding the nation’s highest court.
President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and multiple conservative pundits accused Joe Biden of wanting to “pack” the Supreme Court.
RT reports: Biden never gave a straight answer, telling reporters in October that they would “know my opinion on court-packing when the election is over.”
Now, nearly three months after inauguration, Biden has signaled that court-packing could be on the table. The president issued an executive order on Friday to create a “Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.”
Made up of a supposedly bipartisan group of legal scholars, judges and activists, the commission will examine the court’s role in upholding the constitution, the lifetime appointment of justices, and, crucially, “the membership and size of the court,” per a White House statement issued earlier on Friday.
To both Democrats and Republicans, the order came as an admission that Biden intends to pack the court. Progressive Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-New York) celebrated, declaring that “to restore our democracy, we must expand the Supreme Court.”
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee responded differently, warning that Biden “wants to radicalize the Supreme Court.”
Of the Supreme Court’s nine justices, six – three of whom were appointed by Donald Trump – lean conservative. However, some regularly cross ideological lines to side with their liberal colleagues, most notably when the court declined to hear Trump’s cases regarding alleged election fraud last year, and when it ruled against his plan to overturn an Obama-era policy offering a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants brought to the US as children.
The current number of seats on the court was set at nine in 1869, having changed six times before that.
Progressives have long lobbied Biden to ignore conservative outrage and pack the court, and the New York Times noted on Friday that his executive order was made “under pressure from activists.”
However, opposition to court-packing is not limited to conservative circles. In a speech to Harvard Law School students on Tuesday, Justice Stephen Breyer, a liberal and, at 82, the court’s oldest justice, warned against opening up more seats.
“Those whose initial instincts may favor important structural changes” should “think long and hard before embodying those changes in law,” he cautioned, according to a Politico report.
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