Democratic senator accuses Biden administration of 'completely' chickening out on Supreme Court reform

Sen. Whitehouse blasts Biden's SCOTUS commission as a 'lame' dodge, claiming the prez 'completely chickened out' on real reform.
Kamala Harris pitches expanding the Supreme Court to 13+ seats and nixing the Electoral College—on Keke Palmer's podcast, because why not?
Biden's own commission members Judge Gertner and Prof. Tribe wanted to call out court rot, but were allegedly squelched into silence.
Legal experts call the expansion gambit a 'pipe dream' and 'fantasy,' requiring a near-impossible constitutional lift.
Walz warns of a Dem 'reckoning' if structural reforms fizzle—because nothing says momentum like promising to rewrite the rules after losing.
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Brief Summary

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse unloads on Joe Biden, calling the former prez's Supreme Court reform efforts 'completely chicken'—a bold fowl move from a guy who's been squawking about right-wing billionaires hijacking the bench. Biden's 2021 commission was supposed to study court reform, but Whitehouse claims the administration gagged members like Nancy Gertner and Laurence Tribe, who actually wanted to call out the rot. Instead, they got a lukewarm report that took no position on expanding the court, because nothing says 'courage' like a 300-page wet blanket. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is out here on Keke Palmer's podcast promising to pack the court and torch the Electoral College, as if the GOP will just roll over and play dead. Legal experts are calling it a 'pipe dream' and 'fantasy,' but hey, why let pesky constitutional math get in the way of a good rallying cry?

Why This Matters

For the average reader, this is the sound of a party eating its own while the other side schemes—the political equivalent of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, but with more press releases. If you're a Democrat hoping for structural fixes like court expansion or killing the Electoral College, this article is a cold splash of reality: none of it is happening anytime soon, and your own leaders are admitting they're too scared to try. For everyone else, it's a front-row seat to the circus, where 'reform' means 'we want to win more' and 'resistance' means 'we lost so we're changing the rules.' The real impact is on your faith in institutions—if a president can't even get a commission to say the court has an integrity problem, what hope is there for actual accountability? And if Harris and Walz are promising fantasies, you'll be hearing this same broken record in 2028, just with different buzzwords and the same gridlock.