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Event announcement: Is there a path forward for court reform?

By Kalvis Golde on Jan 22, 2021 at 12:45 pm

On Monday, Jan. 25, at 1 p.m. EST, the Brookings Institution will host a discussion about the future of Supreme Court reform proposals, now that Democrats have taken narrow control of the Senate and President Joe Biden has created a bipartisan commission to study court reform. Former Attorney General Eric Holder will deliver a keynote address, which will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Susan Hennessey and Molly Reynolds of Brookings, Daniel Epps of Washington University in St. Louis Law, Marin Levy of Duke Law, and Christopher Kang of Demand Justice.

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Every day that passes without the storm encourages more of this from the left:

Liberal group renews pressure on Biden, Democrats to expand Supreme Court

BY ALEX ROARTY

JANUARY 21, 2021 05:02 PM, UPDATED 9 HOURS 28 MINUTES AGO

WASHINGTON

A progressive activist group will launch a new TV ad Sunday demanding President Joe Biden expand the Supreme Court, a sign that the Democratic Party’s left flank plans to continue applying pressure on the issue even amid the frenzy of a new administration taking power.

The ad, from the liberal group Demand Justice, urges Democrats to increase the number of seats on the nation’s highest court after the party won control of the White House and U.S. Senate in the 2020 elections, arguing that voters want them to “restore basic balance” to an institution that added three conservative justices during former President Donald Trump’s tenure.

Interest from liberals in expanding the Supreme Court peaked last year, when Trump and a GOP-controlled Senate confirmed Amy Coney Barrett as a new justice after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and over the vociferous objections of Democratic lawmakers just weeks before the election. Biden, under heavy pressure from the left, eventually agreed during his presidential campaign to form a commission to study the proposal.

Read more here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article248674405.html#storylink=cpy