Buttigieg still supports expanding Supreme Court, defends Biden claim that Barrett nom is 'unconstitutional' - Fox News

Former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and Biden campaign adviser Pete Buttigieg joins ‘Fox News Sunday.’.

Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who now serves on Joe Biden's transition team, said he continues to support the concept of increasing the size of the Supreme Court, and defended the Democratic presidential nominee's claim that the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett is unconstitutional.

In 2019, Buttigieg supported the idea of a 15-member Supreme Court.

Now, in a "Fox News Sunday" interview, he claimed that Republicans who speak out against changing the size of the high court are merely trying trying to distract from other issues.

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Buttigieg then quickly changed the subject himself to focus on issues like health care and gay marriage, which he claimed could both be in jeopardy with President Trump's nomination of Barrett to the Supreme Court.

On Sunday, however, Buttigieg credited Biden for saying that going into Iraq was a mistake, and accused Trump of being "a destabilizing force literally everywhere he goes." He did not address the string of recent peace agreements brokered by the U.S.

While Buttigieg criticized Biden in the past, he said now that the race is between Biden and Trump, he is "enthusiastically" behind the Democratic candidate