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TRENDING TOPICS, MOST CREDIBLE STORIES | | #1 in U.S. News • 20 articles What are the initial findings of a commission studying Supreme Court reform? |  | |
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Biden commission releases research into possible Supreme Court expansion.
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President Biden created the commission in April to study the number of justices on the Supreme Court along with other ways to reform the court system. The group is charged with presenting a final report to Biden by mid-November. The [initial findings] laid out various arguments around reforming the Supreme Court but made no recommendations.
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On expanding the number of Supreme Court justices, the group said they were ultimately divided. The commission laid out a number of factors to be considered, including ways it would impact the judicial system, how the political timing would affect the court's independence and the example it would set for other countries that could use it to justify tampering with their own judicial systems.
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The group said that court expansion could "undermine, rather than enhance, the Supreme Court's legitimacy and its role in the constitutional system, and there are significant reasons to be skeptical that expansion would serve democratic values."
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Biden's Supreme Court commission: Preliminary reports are generally negative on court-packing, but favorable to term limits.
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Why court packing keeps failing.
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The Biden administration [issued] a 40-page report Friday on government-wide plans to protect the financial, insurance...
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| | #1 in World News • 13 articles Why is Bangladesh experiencing a wave of sectarian violence? |
At least four people have been confirmed dead and more than 100 others wounded since Wednesday as violence expanded across the country following allegations that a copy of...
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| | #1 in Science News • 5 articles Why have 13-year old national test scores declined for the first time? |
Math and reading test scores for the nation's 13-year-old students fell between 2012 and 2020 for the first time in the nearly 50-year histo...
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| | #1 in Culture News • 59 articles Why did a Netflix employee share information about a comedian's special? |
The firing of the employee, who was not publicly identified, came days before a Netflix employee walkout planned in response to Chappelle's special, "The Closer...
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