President Joe Biden’s blue-ribbon commission, stacked as it was with forced birther Federalist Society types, has finally and somewhat surprisingly issued a report that doesn’t argue for the status quo. That’s because it doesn’t argue for anything. It spent the last eight months meeting, eating up time, giving Biden an excuse for a delay on moving to fix the courts, to come up with, in essence, this: “We do not see to evaluate or judge the weight of any of these arguments, and the Commission takes no position on the wisdom of expansion.” That’s pretty much the crux of the court reform debate—the need to balance the wild extremism of the solid conservative majority of five (with Chief Justice John Roberts being the one slightly squishier extremist making it sometimes it six) with more justices who aren’t bought and sold by political dark money groups. Like the Federalist Society. It does note that “there is profound disagreement among Commissioners over whether adding Justices to the Supreme Court at this moment in time would be wise.” So they didn’t make a recommendation. Read more