Wall Street Journal
Mr. Biden is not calming his copartisans. For weeks he has refused to answer questions about court packing. Now Mr. Biden has done a new evasion on “60 Minutes”: He said he’d create a “bipartisan commission” of “constitutional scholars,” who would have 180 days to “come back to me with recommendations as to how to reform the court system, because it’s getting out of whack.”
This is a dodge, so Mr. Biden doesn’t have to commit either way. But it’s a laughable one: After almost 50 years in Washington, including as the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee from 1981-87 and its chairman from 1987-95, Mr. Biden wants voters to believe he has no views of his own? That he felt obliged to come up with this line suggests he knows that refusing to oppose court packing is hurting him.
But the blue-ribbon scheme also signals he doesn’t want to alienate the left by rejecting the idea out of hand. Hardly forthright leadership. It raises the realistic fear that eventually Mr. Biden would roll over for the court-packing left.
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