Turley Warns Dems Are Renewing Push To Expand Supreme Court

According to Turley, some advocates of Supreme Court expansion view the judiciary as an obstacle to policy goals they support.

He argued that proposals to increase the number of justices are often tied to efforts to secure favorable rulings on controversial issues.

“And as I discuss in the book, they openly talk about the need to guarantee, once they retake power, never to lose it again,” Turley said.

He pointed to comments from unnamed academics who have argued that certain policy priorities cannot survive judicial review under the current court.

“One Harvard professor said, ‘Look, all the things we’re talking about here are not going to get through the Supreme Court. So, we have to take over the Supreme Court,’” Turley said.

Turley argued that many of the proposals favored by some progressives would face constitutional challenges and that court expansion is being promoted as a way to overcome those obstacles.