President Joe Biden has ordered a study on overhauling the Supreme Court, creating a bipartisan commission Friday that will spend the next six months examining the politically incendiary issues of expanding the court and instituting term limits for justices, among other issues.

Designed to address bias in jury selection, the law changes the framework for deciding whether the exercise of a peremptory challenge is discriminatory, with the goal of rooting out and deterring implicit bias. Proponents of the law note that historical bias in jury selection has resulted in less diverse juries than the pool presents and say change was long overdue. Others say the law will do more harm than good.

Over a conservative judge’s angry dissent, a federal appeals court refused Thursday to let a group of Republican-led states try to revive a Trump administration rule that denied legal status and work permits to noncitizens who accept public benefits, such as food stamps and Medicaid.

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