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Pete Buttigieg: “We would be better off with a court that has something like…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Published | Video Starts at 08:16

We could do some things about that at a minimum, term limits so that, you know for each presidential term, how many Supreme Court appointments are going to go with it. But I also think We would be better off with a court that has something like 13 justices that would match the number of districts that we have in the federal system. and ideally appoint them in a way that isn't so partisan. There are a lot of interesting, different ideas and proposals for how to do it. (08:16–08:26)

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Proposes increasing the number of Supreme Court justices to 13 to match federal districts.

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