MSNBC host calls on liberal Supreme Court Justice Breyer to retire after his warning against 'court-packing'

MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan has called on liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from the bench after he spoke out forcefully against court-packing earlier this week.

"It feels odd for me to have to remind a sitting justice that nowhere in the Constitution does it say there should be nine justices on the court," Hasan wrote at one point. "If the public sees judges as politicians in robes, its confidence in the courts, and in the rule of law itself, can only diminish." In a lecture at Harvard Law School on Tuesday, Breyer argued that politically-driven changes to the Supreme Court risked damaging the rule of law in the United States.