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Justice Stephen Breyer warned against increasing the size of the Supreme Court during interviews to promote his new book
Liberal Justice Stephen Breyer warned on Friday that increasing the size of the Supreme Court risked damaging trust in the court and warned progressives that packing with the bench with likeminded judges would simply push conservatives to do the same.
Breyer, 83, has come under pressure from liberals to retire so President Joe Biden can nominate with a younger, progressive judge.
In two interviews to promote his new book 'The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics,' he said Democrats should not seek to remake a court that currently has a 6-3 conservative majority.
'One party could do it, I guess another party could do it,' he said in an excerpt of an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace due to be broadcast on Sunday.
'On the surface, it seems to me that you start changing these things around, and people will lose trust in the court.'
He was more blunt with his warning to NPR.
'What goes around comes around,' he said. 'And if the Democrats can do it, the Republicans can do it.'
Breyer (seated, second from right) is the senior member of the court's three-judge
