Biden to create commission for US conservative Supreme Court reform
The administration of US President Joe Biden reportedly plans to consider reforms to the Supreme Court’s composition in a move to change the 6-3 conservative majority.
The new president is set to summon a bipartisan commission, as he promised, to consider the reforms, said Politico on Wednesday.
The idea for reform came after former President Donald Trump appointed Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in the days ahead of the November 3 presidential election.
Biden said in October that if he wins, he would put together a panel of scholars to send him recommendations within 180 days on how to reform a court system that's "getting out of whack."
A White House official said Wednesday that Biden “remains committed to an expert study of the role and debate over reform of the court and will have more to say in the coming week.”
Some Democrats have proposed adding more seats to the Supreme Court in order to be able to appoint more liberarls to the body.
Members of the Supreme Court are appointed for life and the judicial appointments made by each president could not be replaced.
Judge Barret’s appointment to the body, which came after the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, secured the dominance of conservative justices in the body.
Five of the nine justices, including the head of the Supreme Court, whose vote is decisive, had been already appointed by Republican presidents – two of them by Trump.
Barrett’s appointment prompted criticism among Democrats who said that Trump had to wait until the elections had concluded.
After Biden's election, Democrats proposed to expand the number of judges in district and circuit courts to undo the effect of Trump’s appointment of more than 200 judges.
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