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Should the Supreme Court Expand? A Bipartisan Commission Tackles the Question.

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KQED

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6656 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

President Biden on Friday ordered a 36-member bipartisan commission to study proposals to expand the size of the U.S. Supreme Court and set term limits for justices. Biden first proposed establishing the commission on the 2020 campaign trail, as the Court's rightward shift during the Trump Administration became a rallying cry for Democrats. We'll talk about the potential ramifications of a Supreme Court overhaul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Coming up on Forum. From KQED Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim.

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Coming up on forum, President Biden last Friday ordered a bipartisan commission to study expanding the U.S. Supreme Court, among other changes.

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Biden first proposed the commission on the 2020 campaign trail, as Democrats decried Senate-Republican

1:28.7

efforts to confirm a justice days before a presidential election after preventing former

1:34.1

President Obama from filling a seat for nearly a year. We'll look at the potential impact of a

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Supreme Court overhaul and get reaction to the court's most recent decision to strike down a

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This is Forum. I'm Nina Kim. President Joe Biden on Friday issued an executive order

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establishing a 36-member bipartisan commission to study the possibility of Supreme Court reform,

2:11.6

including expanding the number of justices. Biden proposed the commission on the campaign trail, as the court's

2:18.4

rightward shift and how it was achieved became a rallying cry for Democrats. We'll talk about

2:24.7

what the commission will do. But first, let's look at the court's latest decision to strike

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