Pete Buttigieg Quotes

There is only one excuse for packing the [Supreme] Court and that is to change it.

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

If the Constitution, as interpreted by the Court, prevents the proper solution of our social and economic problems, should we do something to the Constitution to meet the difficulty, or should we do something to the Supreme Court?

If the people desire changes in the highest judicial tribunal in the land, the people can speak with their power to amend their own Constitution.

One single object... will merit the endless gratitude of society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation

Until I was justice minister, Netanyahu was proud of stopping laws to change the judiciary.

I think we’ve been preparing and anticipating for there being these egregious overreaches by members of the judiciary appointed by a right-wing Republican Party, whose goal for a very long time was to just pack these Courts with partisan Judges often under qualified or completely unqualified for their role. And so there has been thought I believe given to this. Senator Ron Wyden has already issued statements, for example, advising what we should do in situations like this, which I concur, which is that I believe that the Biden administration should ignore this ruling.

The judiciary is not supposed to be the dominant branch of the federal government. It is supposed to be one of three equal branches. For now, Republicans have the upper hand because Democrats don’t have the votes in Congress to change the law. But the harsh recent [Democrat] criticism is intended to be an early step in a long campaign to constrain the court.

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

The Supreme Court has made itself into a political institution … It has become a political prize and a political position.

We seem to grant less than half a dozen folks in black robes across the street, the right to amend [the Constitution] any time they change their mind.

One way for Constitutional change is the fact that [Supreme Court] justices are mortal.

Republicans say to Democrats, “Your judges are political activists.” The Democrats respond to the Republicans, “Your judges are political activists.” So the public thinks that all judges are political activists and just politicians in robes. This is very worrying.

The federal judiciary is an irresponsible body … working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction ...

Judges are terrible politicians.

We in Congress don’t have much influence on the Supreme Court. We confirm judges and then we never hear from them. They don’t call. They don’t write.

The country is yearning for a change. I'd rather take my chances on somebody new, particularly with regard to the Supreme Court.

Obama and Biden want a bench crammed full of liberal judicial activists, and it's up to the American people to tell them 'no.'

If the court is a political institution making important political decisions, then the public should debate the politics of Supreme Court decisions.

We absolutely have to change the status quo in Washington.

I have always thought that term limits for Justices sound good until you really give the issue some thought.

When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that’s tyranny.

The debate over judicial nominations is a debate over the judiciary itself. It is a debate over how much power unelected judges should have in our system of government, how much control judges should have over a written constitution that belongs to the people.