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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 27, 2021

The Biden administration is moving forward with the creation of a bipartisan commission to study reforms to the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary, Politico reports. The commission will be housed under the purview of the White House Counsel’s office. Not all members have been named yet but those that have been include co-chair Cristina Rodríguez, a professor at Yale Law School; Caroline Fredrickson, former president of the American Constitution Society; and Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard Law School professor and a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Bush administration. During the 2020 election, President Joe Biden said he would form a commission to study structural changes at the court if elected.