President Biden has created his promised blue ribbon panel on the Supreme Court, with its chief mandate of producing within six months of its inaugural meeting an analysis of "the contemporary public debate for and against Supreme Court reform."
The EO does not identify any extant problems that necessitate "reform," but it does say it's a job requiring input from thirty-six "distinguished constitutional scholars, retired members of the Federal
judiciary, or other individuals having experience with and knowledge of
the Federal judiciary and the Supreme Court of the United States." A full roster with bios can be found here.
If I'm being honest, I don't recognize most of the names. (A few ring a bell, such as Democratic Swamp creature Walter Dellinger and Laurence Tribe, a Twitter loon who moonlights at Harvard Law.) But to my admittedly untrained eye for all things blue-ribbony, 36 seems like a number you'd pick if you secretly wanted your "reform" commission to come up with a ten-page report from a plurality of milquetoasts and two dozen conflicting minority reports -- all to be read by few people of influence and acted upon by none.
I suppose that will have to be good enough for me.
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