President Joe Biden is facing a remarkable onslaught of opposition to his scheme to pack the U.S. Supreme Court with liberal judges in a bid to use his nominating powers to shift the nation’s politics in his direction.

Already a losing idea in public polls, a legal group presented the president’s court-packing commission on Wednesday with a petition from 402,537 foes, including leading legal figures such as former President Ronald Reagan’s Attorney General Edwin Meese.

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