SKOWHEGAN, Maine — Senate candidate Graham Platner has called for stacking the Supreme Court and impeaching “at least two” of its sitting justices, moves he said should be top priorities for Democrats if they retake the Senate next year.

“We’re going to have to start treating the Supreme Court like the political action wing that it has become of conservatism,” Platner said Saturday during a Somerset County Democrats meeting in the central Maine town of Skowhegan. “It is not functioning as a constitutional body. I’m a supporter of stacking the Court.”

He continued, “I’m also a supporter of—I mean, the Senate can write its own rules. I firmly believe if we held Supreme Court justices to the same standard that we hold other federal judges, there’s a compelling case for the impeachment and removal of at least two justices. It’s very frustrating to me that there are Democrats in the Senate that either do not understand or don’t want to understand the power they actually have. If we retake the Senate, get the majority—fingers crossed—we need to use every single lever of power that we have to deal with the Supreme Court.”

These remarks represent Platner’s most aggressive stance to date regarding the High Court. While his campaign website lists a number of left-wing policy priorities, it does not include a section on the Supreme Court. Although Platner has criticized the Court’s conservative justices on social media platform X, he had not previously called for expanding the Court or impeaching any of its members.

Platner did not specify which Supreme Court justices he believes should be impeached, nor did he provide details on his vision for expanding the Court. His campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

The issue could become a sticking point in the race to challenge incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins. Platner’s most prominent primary opponent, Maine Governor Janet Mills, has accused the “conservative majority of the Supreme Court” of “judicial overreach,” but has not taken a position on stacking the Court.

Platner’s appearance in Somerset County was one of three campaign stops he made on Saturday. At a town hall held about 60 miles west in Bucksport, Platner accused the Trump White House of “full-blown fascism” and suggested it would contest the results of the 2026 midterm elections.

“The starting point for whatever comes next is the exact same place, whether we are talking about winning a Senate seat in a normal election next November, or whether we’re talking about figuring out how to resist fascism in contested elections, because the White House is going to do what we think it’s probably going to do,” Platner said. “We have a changing climate, which—before we had full-blown fascism in this country—I would have said was probably the biggest problem on the horizon.”

The Bucksport stop was not without tension. At one point, a sexual assault survivor confronted Platner over a 2013 Reddit post in which he urged rape victims to “take some responsibility for themselves,” according to the Washington Free Beacon.

Platner apologized, explaining that he wrote the post when he “had come out of the infantry” and “had a frankly myopic worldview on this issue.” He said he had “no excuse” for the post or other “jokes” he made on Reddit in the past.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/graham-platner-calls-to-stack-the-supreme-court-and-impeach-at-least-two-sitting-justices/