Pelosi has "no plans" to bring bill expanding Supreme Court to House floor

Washington — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she does not intend to bring a Democratic-backed bill that would add four seats to the Supreme Court to the House floor, stalling the measure just as lawmakers were poised to formally unveil it.

"I don't know that that's a good idea or a bad idea. I think that's an idea that should be considered, and I think the president is taking the right approach to study such a thing," Pelosi told reporters of the bill to expand the nation's highest court. "It's a big step." Pelosi said Democrats are focusing on passing President Biden's sweeping infrastructure package, and she instead backs the president's newly created commission to study reforms to the Supreme Court, including expanding its membership beyond the current nine.