July 7, 2022: Biden critics press for more SCOTUS action

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🗓️ 7 July 2022

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Last year, the White House convened a bipartisan commission of legal experts and academics to study the Supreme Court and make recommendations on whether (and how) to reform it. The resulting recommendations were fairly moderate in scope, focusing on matters of transparency and ethics. And in the eyes of some progressives agitating for major changes to the judiciary, one big recommendation was noticeably absent: court packing. Now, a growing number of critics on the left say that President JOE BIDEN, who remains opposed to adding seats to the court, is — sound familiar? — failing to meet the moment and respond with the urgency it demands. (Just published: Playbook's Eugene Daniels’ new story on this topic) Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	presented by Meta.
0:01.8	Hey, good morning, playbookers.
0:03.4	I'm Rookin, it's Thursday.
0:05.4	Today's show, can Biden meet the moment the SCOTUS edition?
0:08.9	It's her Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.
0:14.8	Last year, the White House convened a bipartisan commission of legal experts and academics
0:19.1	to study the Supreme Court and make recommendations on whether and how to reform it.
0:24.6	The resulting recommendations were fairly moderate in scope, focusing on matters of transparency and ethics.
0:29.6	And in the eyes of some progressives, agitating for major changes to the judiciary, one big recommendation was noticeably absent.
0:36.6	Court packing. On the panel, there were recommendation was noticeably absent.
0:37.7	Court packing.
0:38.6	On the panel.
0:39.6	There were essentially three schools of thought on that proposal.
0:42.2	One, those who said it was the most effective way to repair the judiciary.
0:46.1	Two, those who opposed it, believing it would damage the judiciary's legitimacy irrevocably.
0:50.8	And three, those who thought that whatever its merits, the political realities
0:54.3	made it a conversation not really worth having.
0:56.9	Now, a growing number of critics on the left say that President Joe Biden, who remains opposed
1:01.6	to adding seats to the court, is, well, does this sound familiar?
1:04.9	Failing to meet the moment and respond with the urgency it demands.
1:08.7	One of those voices is Nancy Gertner.
1:11.2	She's a former federal judge who joined the commission last year, thinking that modest
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