Biden’s Supreme Court Commission Loses Two Conservatives (2)

Oct. 15, 2021, 7:08 PM UTCUpdated: Oct. 15, 2021, 9:11 PM UTC

President Joe Biden’s bipartisan commission studying changes to the U.S. Supreme Court, including court expansion, lost two of its conservative members ahead of a Friday meeting to review preliminary findings.

Caleb Nelson, a law professor at the University of Virginia, and Jack Goldsmith, a law professor at Harvard, are no longer members of the panel, the White House confirmed.

“These two commissioners have chosen to bring their involvement to a close,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in an emailed statement. “We respect their decision and very much appreciate the significant contributions that they made during the last 5 months ...

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