“President Biden will create a panel to study expanding the Supreme Court in an effort to balance the conservative majority created by Donald Trump. And ask yourself this: If the roles were reversed and, say, President Trump ordered a commission through executive order to study expanding the Supreme Court in the name of balance, would the Times frame it the same way? Rhetorical question.
Court packing has long been anathema in the United States, and polls have consistently shown the vast majority of Americans oppose the idea. The commission is an ominous sign that Biden may be offering up the last institution immune from our impulsive politics. Its composition also seems to confirm the worst expectations. Indeed, it is a lesson in how to pack a body”. (The Hill. Read more here and here.)