# Democratic senator accuses Biden admin of 'completely' chickening out on Supreme Court reform > Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse claims Biden administration 'completely chicken' on Supreme Court reform. - Title: Democratic senator accuses Biden admin of 'completely'… - Summary: Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse claims Biden administration 'completely chicken' on Supreme Court reform. Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse accuses… - Keywords: sheldon whitehouse, biden administration, supreme court reform, democratic senator, the lever, judicial commission, congressional reform, court ethics, news, politics, Democratic, senator - Source: Fox News — https://foxnews.com/media/democratic-senator-accuses-biden-administration-completely-chickening-supreme-court-reform - Author: Hanna Panreck - Published: 2026-10-15T00:00:00+00:00 - Read time: 1 min - Topics: sheldon whitehouse, biden administration, supreme court reform, democratic senator, the lever, judicial commission, congressional reform, court ethics, news, politics ## Democratic senator accuses Biden admin of chickening out Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse accused Biden administration of chickening out on Supreme Court reform during an interview with The Lever on Wednesday. > Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., called out the Biden administration on Wednesday for a lack of action taken on the Supreme Court and said they were "completely chicken" on it ## Biden administration reluctance on court reform Whitehouse said Biden administration was highly reluctant to address Supreme Court issues and squelched Judge Gertner and Professor Tribe when they wanted to describe problems at the court. > Biden set up that lame committee commission on the Supreme Court and then squelched both Judge Gertner and Professor Tribe when they wanted to describe some of the actual problems at the court so that they couldn't even get that into the report ## Whitehouse on Supreme Court integrity issues Whitehouse stated Supreme Court has a real integrity problem and Biden administration only awakened to this issue after losing the election. > The Biden people didn't want to go there. They were completely chicken about all that. They wanted no part of that. And it, really wasn't until the very end, in his last speech after he and Harris had both lost that Biden seemed to have at least somewhat awakened to the fact that the Supreme Court had a real integrity problem ## Gertner and Tribe's commission report Gertner and Tribe served on Biden's Presidential Commission on Supreme Court and wrote in The Washington Post that Congress must expand the court size immediately. > Gertner and Tribe were two of the 34 members of the commission, and wrote in The Washington Post, "We now believe that Congress must expand the size of the Supreme Court and do so as soon as possible. We did not come to this conclusion lightly." ## Harris calls for court expansion Former Vice President Kamala Harris called for expanding Supreme Court and Electoral College reform during an interview on Wednesday. > The work that we can do about winning back the House and the Senate is going to be on a number of things. For example, I believe that we need to expand the Supreme Court . We need more justices on the Supreme Court so that we can have a court that actually reinforces the spirit and principles behind the Constitution of the United States ## Experts dismiss court expansion feasibility Northwestern law professor Andrew Stoltmann said changing Supreme Court composition through constitutional amendment is nearly impossible due to political divisions. > The odds of Democrats changing the composition of the Supreme Court through a constitutional amendment are near zero, while changing it via statutory legislation (such as expanding the number of seats or imposing term limits) would be extraordinarily difficult. It is a pipe dream. A fantasy. It’s nothing more than something to get their base excited about ## Key takeaway Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse accuses Biden administration of chickening out on Supreme Court reform during an interview with The Lever.