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Julia Conley

BIZARRE: Biden refuses to back scotus expansion - What They Never Told You

Judicial reform advocates on Friday demanded that President Joe Biden recognize the urgent need for far-reaching reform at the U.S. Supreme Court after he claimed that court expansion could "politicize" the nation's highest judicial panel—amid several rulings that critics said called the right-wing majority's legitimacy into further question.

On MSNBC Thursday, Biden told anchor Nicolle Wallace that expanding the court by adding more justices—a step that's been taken by Congress seven times in U.S. history—"may do too much harm" to the judiciary.

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