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The White House announced today that President Joe Biden will sign an executive order creating a new Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. The group will be composed of legal activists and scholars who will “provide an analysis of the principal arguments in the contemporary public debate for and against Supreme Court reform,” according to a statement released by the White House. Among the items up for discussion by the commission are “the length of service and turnover of justices on the Court” and “the membership and size of the Court.”

The commission fulfills one of Biden’s campaign promises. “If elected,” Biden told 60 Minutes, “I’ll put together a national…bipartisan commission of scholars, constitutional scholars. Democrats, Republicans. Liberal, conservative. And I will ask them to, over 180 days, come back to me with recommendations as to how to reform the court system, because it’s getting out of whack.”