Turley Warns Dems Are Renewing Push To Expand Supreme Court

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.

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.