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Pete Buttigieg’s Plan to Politicize the Supreme Court
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Pete Buttigieg seems like a sensible fellow. The South Bend mayor and Democratic presidential candidate, who has become the latest media darling, has interesting ideas. And if progressives worry that he shows a troubling tendency to think for himself, maybe that’s a point in his favor.1
But whatever Buttigieg’s virtues, his ideas about how to fix the Supreme Court are bad. As in really, really bad.