Supreme Court Panel Divided on Expansion Approves Report

A White House Commission studying changes to the U.S. Supreme Court voted unanimously to send its report to President Joe Biden after sidestepping the most controversial proposals to expand the court’s membership or limit the justices’ terms.

Members, who voted 34-0 Tuesday, emphasized that their approval of the final report doesn’t signal support for all the proposals examined by the panel.

“I am opposed to expanding the size of the court, limiting the term of the justices,” or stripping the court of the authority to hear certain cases, said former D.C. Circuit Judge Thomas B. Griffith.

Nevertheless, he said he’d ...