Mr. Buttigieg criticized Ms. Warren and Beto O’Rourke for being too extreme on health care and guns at last week’s Democratic debate, and now he’s changing on the issue that ignited his unlikely candidacy. In an interview with Cosmopolitan, Mr. Buttigieg cited “Justices like Justice [Anthony] Kennedy or Justice [David] Souter” as additions who would “depoliticize” the Supreme Court.
This isn’t sitting well with liberal activists and intellectuals. Said one law professor on Twitter : “You mean the author of Citizens United allowing unlimited corporate spending in candidate elections and one of the 5 votes in the majority in Shelby County killing a key section of the Voting Rights Act? *That* Justice Kennedy?”