The Biden administration is assembling a judicial reform commission. The commission will study the federal judiciary and propose reforms when it completes its work. While all Americans — left, right, and center — should applaud its formation, the commission needs to avoid a few obvious problems.
Foremost, the administration should NOT staff the commission entirely, or even mostly, with lawyers. If the problems with the judiciary were such that lawyers could identify and solve them, Congress, which has no shortage of lawyers, would already be in perfect position to do the commission’s work.
Instead, the administration should appoint people from a wide variety of educational and class backgrounds to the commission.
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