Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have opposed Biden’s court-packing ploy

Published April 9, 2021 8:37pm ET



As many conservatives feared and predicted, President Joe Biden is inching his way toward packing the Supreme Court, a radical and dangerous policy that even revered liberal legal minds have rejected.

Biden signed an executive order on Friday creating a 36-person bipartisan commission that will review the Supreme Court’s history and investigate potential changes to the nomination process and potential consequences of altering the court’s size. As my colleague Quin Hillyer notes, the commission will not issue specific recommendations, but its report will nevertheless be used by leftists to justify “reforms” to the judiciary that will include adding seats to the high court’s bench.

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