Democratic senator accuses Biden administration of having "completely" violated Supreme Court reforms

Sheldon Whitehouse said the Biden administration is "completely agreeable" on Supreme Court reforms, while Kamala Harris is now pushing for court expansion.

Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse accused the Biden administration of ignoring SCOTUS reforms

In an interview with "The Lever" on Wednesday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse accused the Biden administration of violating SCOTUS reforms.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., on Wednesday called out the Biden administration for the lack of action on the Supreme Court, saying they were "absolutely on board with that."

Lever's David Sirota asked the White House what a "legitimate" opposition to the court would look like if a Democratic president believed the Supreme Court was "enabling an anti-democratic project."

"Well, I think it starts with telling the truth, and I think the chief executive of the United States has the proverbial bully, the bully's pulpit, and he has to be prepared to argue that the courts are wrong. The Biden administration was very reluctant to do that. They absolutely did it. Biden created that Supreme Court and the Justice Committee, and then they created the Justice Committees on the Supreme Court. When they wanted to describe some of the real problems on the court," the White House said. so that they could not even include it in the report.

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He continued: "Biden's people didn't want to go there. They were totally on board with all of this. They didn't want any part of it. And really, it wasn't until the very end, in his last speech after he and Harris lost both that Biden seemed to have at least some understanding of the fact that the Supreme Court has a real integrity problem.

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Nancy Gertner and Lawrence Tribe served on former President Biden's Commission on the Supreme Court. Gertner and Tribe wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post in December 2021 calling for more judges to be added to the court after the commission ultimately took no position on adding more judges.

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Gertner and Tribe, two of the 34 members of the commission, wrote in the Washington Post: "We now believe that Congress should expand the size of the Supreme Court and do so as soon as possible." We did not reach this simple conclusion."

White House has been a proponent of the Supreme Court's ethics rules because he has argued that the court has been overrun by "right-wing billionaires and special interests."

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris called for an expansion of the Supreme Court in an interview Wednesday, among other major institutional changes, including reforms to the Electoral College.

"What we can do to take back the House and the Senate will be on a few things. For example, I believe that we need to expand the Supreme Court. "I believe we should push for what's possible when it comes to changing the Electoral College," Harris told podcast host Keke Palmer on the "Honey, This Is Keke Palmer" podcast. right?"

Harris has been labeled an "institutional arsonist" for his plan to fundamentally change SCOTUS and the Electoral College

He also called for statehood for Washington DC as well as Puerto Rico. His comments come days after his running mate in the 2024 presidential race, Gov. Tim Walz, warned of a reckoning among Democrats if the party fails to deliver on structural changes and promises if it takes back Congress and possibly the presidency in 2028.

He continued: "Constitutional amendment requires a two-thirds vote in the House of Representatives and the Senate, followed by three-quarters (38 out of 50) state assemblies." Given the deep divisions, politically, this is almost impossible. It's almost silly for Democrats to argue that this is a realistic possibility."

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