{"id":1093891,"date":"2021-12-07T10:14:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T15:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1093891"},"modified":"2021-12-07T10:14:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T15:14:20","slug":"biden-judicial-commission-rejects-court-packing-term-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-judicial-commission-rejects-court-packing-term-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Judicial Commission Rejects Court Packing, Term Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-judicial-commission-rejects-court-packing-term-limits%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1093891&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.705882352941\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/\">The Courts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Progressives claim reforms are needed to reverse Court&#8217;s rightward tilt<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236896663-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"Supreme Court\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236896663.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236896663-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236896663-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/kevin-daley\/\" title=\"Posts by Kevin Daley\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Kevin Daley<\/a> \u2022 December 7, 2021 10:02 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"93.704273504274\">\n<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s Supreme Court commission dashed progressive hopes Monday when it refused to endorse court packing or term limits for justices.<\/p>\n<p>The commission&#8217;s final <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SCOTUS-Report-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> acknowledges &#8220;profound&#8221; disagreements over what direction the Court should take in the future but makes no specific recommendations. The commission will vote to adopt the report and send it to Biden during its last scheduled meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The fissure of the court packing push could be especially bitter for the far left given the content of the Court&#8217;s docket this term. The justices signaled last week that they may <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/roe-v-wade-in-serious-danger-as-supreme-court-hears-challenge-to-mississippi-abortion-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overturn<\/a> <em>Roe<\/em> v. <em>Wade<\/em> this summer. And gun-rights advocates are hopeful that the Court will <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/supreme-court-could-end-new-york-concealed-carry-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expand<\/a> concealed carry rights in a Second Amendment case it heard in November.<\/p>\n<p>The commission&#8217;s report states flatly that it takes no position on Court expansion. The report acknowledges Congress could tinker with the Court&#8217;s size at any time. But it notes the most forceful arguments for expanding the Court, such as maintaining public confidence in the institution, can also be used in support of the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>The report is lukewarm on the subject of term limits. The commission did not throw its weight behind the idea, but its report discusses ideas for phasing in a term limit system.<\/p>\n<p>One practical obstacle to term limits is transitioning the Court&#8217;s current members into retirement. The report suggested addressing the problem by constitutional amendment. The amendment would set a limit on tenure and require the justices to retire in order of seniority\u2014defined by years of service\u2014in three-year intervals. Justice Clarence Thomas would be the first to leave under that model.<\/p>\n<p>The report added that any attempt to set term limits should permanently fix the number of justices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One major justification for a staggered, term-limited system of appointment is that such a system would bring about less randomness and greater equality across presidential terms in the number of justices a president would have the opportunity to appoint,&#8221; the report reads. &#8220;That aim would be drastically undermined, however, were Congress free to vary the size of the Court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report adds that term limits offer &#8220;uncertain practical benefits.&#8221; Critics have expressed concern that term-limited justices might consider post-judicial employment options in their deliberations. They also say shortened terms of service reduce incentives to cooperate, especially later in a justice&#8217;s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>One of the few measures the panel rejected outright was a proposal Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg championed as a presidential candidate. The Buttigieg proposal meant to dilute ideological advantage by expanding the Supreme Court to 15 seats. Each party would select five members, and those 10 would choose the remaining five.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Article II does not permit \u2018judges of the Supreme Court&#8217; to be selected by other members of that Court,&#8221; the report reads.<\/p>\n<p>The commission&#8217;s design reflects the president&#8217;s ambivalence about reforming the Supreme Court. Biden mustered the panel under heavy pressure from progressives to address the Court&#8217;s rightward tilt. But he gave the panel a vague directive, asking only for appraisals of court reform arguments rather than policy proposals. And he staffed the commission with status-quo-minded figures like academics, establishment lawyers, and a handful of conservatives who were unlikely to endorse sweeping change.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Courts Progressives claim reforms are needed to reverse Court&#8217;s rightward tilt  Getty Images  Kevin Daley \u2022 December 7, 2021 10:02 am President &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}