Pete Buttigieg Backs Expanding Supreme Court, Calls It a ‘Nakedly Partisan Institution’

Pete Buttigieg Backs Expanding Supreme Court, Calls It a ‘Nakedly Partisan Institution’

Pete Buttigieg said Sunday he still supports adding seats to the Supreme Court as part of an overhaul he claims would make it less partisan.

POLITICS: Buttigieg Renews Call to Expand Supreme Court, Reprises Electoral College Overhaul He Pitched in Tulsa – The Beltway Report

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday he still backs adding seats to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing the current nine-member bench has become what he called a “nakedly partisan institution.” Buttigieg made the comments during a September 13 appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, when host Kristen Welker asked whether he still supports increasing the number of justices from nine to fifteen, a position he took years ago as a pres…

Buttigieg Renews Call to Expand Supreme Court, Reprises Electoral College Overhaul He Pitched in Tulsa

Pete Buttigieg said Sunday he still supports adding seats to the Supreme Court, months after telling a Tulsa, Oklahoma town hall he also wants to scrap the Electoral College.