Democratic presidential nominee
Joe Biden in a new interview says he'd seek court reform recommendations from a bipartisan commission if elected.
Biden made these comments in an interview set to air on 60 Minutes after facing questions in recent weeks about his position on the idea of packing the Supreme Court.
"If elected, what I will do is I'll put together a national commission, a bipartisan commission, of scholars, constitutional scholars — Democrats, Republicans, liberal, conservative — and I will ask them to, over 180 days, come back to me with recommendations as to how to reform the court system, because it's getting out of whack the way in which it's being handled," Biden said.
Biden had been repeatedly asked whether he would support expanding the Supreme Court, a move some
Democrats called for after
Republicans announced they would move to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat before the
election. In numerous interviews, Biden declined to specifically answer the question, although he recently said he's "not a fan of court packing."
In the 60 Minutes interview, Biden said he would look at his commission's recommendations and that they could involve several options outside of court packing.
"It's not about court packing, there's a number of other things that our constitutional scholars have debated," Biden said. "And I'd look to see what recommendations that commission might make. ... There's a number of alternatives that go well beyond packing."
Biden added that "the last thing we need to do is turn the
Supreme Court into just a political
Football, whoever has the most votes gets whatever they want."