Kamala Harris says the US Supreme Court should expand to 13 justices | CNN Politics

Former Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday that the United States should consider expanding the Supreme Court to be made up of 13 justices, a popular idea among Democrats who have increasingly pushed for court reform. “We need to revisit the point of expanding the court to 13 justices like we have 13 district courts,” Harris said at the National Urban League’s annual conference in Nashville, also calling for a review of the Electoral College and statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington, DC. The federal judiciary has 13 circuit courts and 94 district courts, according to the Department of Justice. Her comments come as potential 2028 presidential candidates jockey to push reforms to US institutions after President Donald Trump leaves office. Her remarks were more forceful than when she said during her 2020 White House bid that she was “open to that discussion.” As vice president, Harris backed Supreme Court changes proposed by President Joe Biden such as term limits, though those proposals did not include increasing the number of justices. Democrats have proposed expanding the nine-member court to counter what they see as disproportionate conservative influence over it