Biden Issues Order Creating Commission to ‘Examine…the Membership and Size’ of the Supreme Court
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(Worthy News) – President Joe Biden, the constitutional head of the Executive Branch of the federal government, issued an Executive Order today creating an Executive Branch commission to “examine…the membership and size’ of the Supreme Court, which heads the Judicial Branch.
The Supreme Court has been limited to 9 members since 1869. In the 1930s, Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the court, pushing for a Democrat-controlled Congress to add one new member to the court for each member over 70 years of age.
That would have created a Supreme Court with 15 members—with the latest six having been nominated by FDR. Even a Democratic Congress declined to do this. [ Source: CNS News (Read More…) ]
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