John, In the earliest months of his administration, President Biden assembled a commission of constitutional law experts to determine whether we should reform the Supreme Court. After more than seven months of deliberation, the commission has released a 288-page report that effectively avoids drawing any sort of conclusion and fails to advocate for immediate reforms necessary to save our democracy. What's worse, the Court’s conservative justices didn't waste any time on their quest to dismantle our democracy. In the time since the Commission was formed, they further gutted the Voting Rights Act, effectively overturned Roe v. Wade in Texas, blocked President Biden’s eviction moratorium, reinstated Donald Trump’s cruel ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, curtailed workers’ rights to organize, and eroded government transparency by ruling in favor of a Koch-backed dark money group. We see these decisions for what they are: a dangerous takeover of a traditionally nonpartisan institution, one that has lost its legitimacy in the eyes of the American people. The only way we can restore the Court is to expand it. Sign the petition: Demand Congress and the Biden Administration pass the Judiciary Act and add 4 more justices to the Supreme Court. Members of Biden’s commission, Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe and former federal judge Nancy Gertner, recently published an opinion piece in the Washington Post, arguing that expanding the Court is the only effective measure to restore its legitimacy: Neither of us cast a vote of confidence in the Supreme Court itself. Sadly, we no longer have that confidence...the anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian direction of this court’s decisions about matters such as voting rights, gerrymandering, and the corrupting effects of dark money…haven’t been just wrong; they put the court — and, more importantly, our entire system of government — on a one-way trip from a defective but still hopeful democracy toward a system in which the few corruptly govern the many, something between autocracy and oligarchy. We cannot afford to let the Court continue its attack on our values and our democracy. We must pass the Judiciary Act of 2021 and expand the Supreme Court. In solidarity,
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