Turley Warns Dems Are Renewing Push To Expand Supreme Court

“He went before an audience and had to offer them something, so he offered them up the United States Supreme Court, perhaps the single most important institution in this country’s constitutional system,” Turley said.

Turley disputed Buttigieg’s reasoning that a 13-member Supreme Court would reflect the federal court structure.

“He’s wrong,” Turley said.

“This wouldn’t reflect the district court system.”

“I think he’s referring to the circuit courts, the fact that there are 13 of them, but that’s the extent of that analysis.”

The legal scholar then broadened his criticism to what he described as a growing movement among some academics and political commentators advocating major constitutional changes.

“What is really troubling here, and I go into this in my book, ‘Rage and the Republic,’ is that at our 250th anniversary, pundits and professors are calling to trash the Constitution or make radical changes,” Turley said.