Progressives Push Back on Breyer for Court Packing Comments

Progressives pushed back strongly against Justice Stephen Breyer’s recent warning that efforts to add seats to the U.S. Supreme Court could erode public trust.

“I didn’t understand why he was weighing in on the prerogative of the legislature” as a member of the judiciary, Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) said Thursday during an American Constitution Society discussion about restructuring the court.

“I wish that he would just stop talking about that and stick to actually adjudicating cases,” Jones said.

Nancy Zirkin, former executive vice president for the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said she “was surprised by his ...