President Joe Biden combined executive and judicial branch duties earlier this year by creating a reform panel to study the impacts of altering the Supreme Court.
This week, the president got his response--but it wasn't what he was looking for.
In an initial draft release of the report, the panel decided that there are “considerable” risks to expanding the court.
Biden claimed to not be a fan of court-packing last year during his presidential campaign, but he immediately began developing a commission just three months into his presidency to look into altering the size of the court and length of service.
“The Commission’s purpose is to provide an analysis of the principal arguments in the contemporary public debate for and against Supreme Court reform,” the White House announced in April.
Strangely, just one day before the panel’s preliminary findings review on Friday, two conservative members resigned, leaving questions as to why they both felt the need to leave the group that originally consisted of 36 members.
“These two commissioners have chosen to bring their involvement to a close,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said. “We respect their decision and very much appreciate the significant contributions that they made during the last 5 months in terms of preparing for these deliberations.”
The panel’s draft wrote positively about term limits for judges, something Convention of States Action is attempting to impose on members of Congress as well. They did, however, caution against increasing the number of seats on the court, something Democrats are pushing in an attempt to balance out the 6-3 conservative-leaning court.
While the initial conclusions are reasonable, the fact remains that Biden has an array of executive powers and has been known to disregard his past statements and modify his stance for what’s best in the moment.
The threat of America’s judicial system in the hands of Biden is yet another reason to take advantage of Article V of the Constitution and call for a Convention of States.
When 34 states agree to a Convention, the states can come together to really address the root of the problems plaguing our country: an expanding federal government and weakening self-governance among the people. If the Democrats succeed in expanding the Supreme Court, you can expect an even larger federal government and even weaker individual rights and freedoms.
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