Harris: ‘We Can Study’ Packing Supreme Court

SPALL: “I appreciate that you did acknowledge that we are a country that is faced with problems and issues. With the Supreme Court being plagued with issues, would you be in favor of expanding the court to, say, 12, so each justice has only one circuit court, other than chief justice, to assist in making judgments more balanced?”
Harris: “Well, to your point, there is no question that the American people increasingly are losing confidence in the Supreme Court and, in large part, because of the behavior of certain members of that court and because of certain rulings, including the Dobbs decision and taking away a precedent that had been in place for 50 years, protecting a woman‘s right to make decisions about her own body. So I do believe that there should be some kind of reform of the court, and we can study what that actually looks like, but I do believe. But again, let‘s just, while you raise the point of the court, understand that, again, in 13 days the American people will decide who is the next president of the United States. In 13 days, you will decide who is sitting in the Oval Office on January 20th. And on one hand, you have, in Donald Trump, someone who has increasingly proved himself to be unstable and who, as we have established and the people close to him have established, he is unfit to serve. Somebody who, on January 20th, you can be sure will spend full time, like we know when we‘ve seen the image mentally of him sitting in the dining room off of the Oval Office, watching for hours as people violently attacked the Capitol. You can be sure, because he has said he would weaponize the Department of Justice to go after his political enemies, that you can look at a Donald Trump in the White House after January 20th, sitting in that Oval Office, plotting his revenge. He has talked about the enemies within. We haven‘t even raised that subject, Anderson, ‘the enemies within.’ He‘s talking about the American people. He‘s talking about journalists, judges, nonpartisan election officials. He has talked about, as John Kelly has talked about, can he send the military after peaceful protesters. And he‘s going to sit there unstable, unhinged, plotting his revenge, plotting his retribution, creating an enemies list. I‘m going to tell you, my list will be a list of how I address and continue to address the issues that you all are raising this afternoon and evening. It will be a to-do list about how we can impact the American people and lift up the American people and address some of the challenges that we continue to face.”