Ideas Festival 2020: Reshaping the Supreme Court?

Ian Millhiser, columnist at ThinkProgress Justice and author of Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted (Bold Type Books, 2016), discusses Pete Buttigieg's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court, and to change the way they get there. 

@imillhiser: Structure of the court is arbitrary. "The Constitution ... suggests there has to be a Chief Justice, but conceivably you could have a one justice court that was just the Chief."- The Brian Lehrer Show (@brianlehrer)

Buttigieg's SCOTUS reform plan "has the right diagnosis," says @imillhiser. Current structure pushes Justices to give themselves power, act like "oligarchs." He says, it's "not compatible with a Nation that rebelled against a King."- The Brian Lehrer Show (@brianlehrer)