Media representatives have settled in front of the US Supreme Court building in Washington.
Al Drago | Reuters
President Joe Biden will instruct a bipartisan commission on Friday to investigate a number of potential reforms before the US Supreme Court, including the politically volatile question of whether the Supreme Court should expand.
The executive order marks the fulfillment of Biden’s election promise to convene a panel of experts to examine the myriad debates over the structure of the Supreme Court.
Then-candidate Biden had refused to explicitly ruled out the idea of putting members on the nine-seat bench, which upset Republicans who opposed the prospect of “court wrapping” by the president.
The new commission, made up of dozens of legal scholars, will hold public meetings to “discuss different perspectives on the issues it will examine,” the White House said on Friday morning in a press release announcing the contract.
The group will release a report within 180 days of its first meeting, the White House said.
Beyond the size of the Supreme Court, according to the press release, the commission will look at judges’ “tenure and revenue”, as well as issues as broad as the court’s role in the US constitutional system.
Judges who have been sustained on the Supreme Court serve life-long appointments, and the court’s opinions are decided by a majority.
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