President Joe Biden on Thursday indicated that he remains opposed to expanding the Supreme Court, even as he criticized the high court’s ruling against affirmative action at universities.
In an MSNBC interview, Biden was asked whether he’s worried that, without reform, the current conservative Supreme Court majority is “too young and too conservative” and thus could do “too much harm.”
“Well, I think they may do too much harm, but I think if we start the process of trying to expand the court, we’re going to politicize it, maybe forever, in a way that is not healthy,” the president said.
His remarks in the MSNBC interview came in the late afternoon, following a White House speech in which the president said he disagreed with the court’s decision on race-conscious college admissions.
“I think that some of the court are beginning to realize their legitimacy is being questioned in ways it hadn’t been questioned in the past,” Biden said in the “Deadline: White House” interview, adding that the justices prospectively developing such an outlook could include Chief Justice John Roberts.
In October 2020, Biden promised to establish a bipartisan commission to study reforms for the federal judiciary, including expanding the Supreme Court. The commission issued a report in December 2021 but didn’t offer a recommendation on the issue of expanding the court.
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