Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz lashed out at the “radical left” over the weekend for pressuring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire so that Joe Biden can name a radially leftwing judge to replace him.

Dershowitz explained that forcing Breyer to retire “will backfire” on the left because Breyer does not want to “be perceived as having given in to the pressure.”

“He’s a great, great man,” Dershowitz said of Breyer. “And there are those on the radical left, including some academics, who are trying to force him off the court. They’re saying to him, ‘Look, quit, quit — even though you’re healthy and well and your appointment is for life because we want to make sure that President Biden gets to appoint your successor while there is still a majority of Democrats in the United States Senate.”

“They want to make the Supreme Court a kind of political institution which is loaded with people of their political stripe rather than allowing the natural phenomenon to occur,” he added. “Justices should sit as long as they are healthy. Oliver Wendell Holmes sat until he was over 90. [Louis] Brandeis sat until he was in his 80s. Some of our greatest decisions were written by octogenarians. And I don’t like the fact that there are people who want to pressure Justice Breyer to leave the court and make it even more political than it now is.”

“It will backfire,” Dershowitz emphasized. “Even if Steve wanted to leave the Supreme Court this term, he’s not going to want to be perceived as having given in to pressure. I know him. He’s not the kind of guy who’s going to say, ‘I’m going to leave office as a result of pressure from some academics who want me to leave in order to serve their own political interests.’ So, A – It’s going to backfire. B – It’s age discrimination. C – It politicizes the Supreme Court. And it tells us what’s wrong with the hard left today. They see everything politically.”

“I hope Justice Breyer will resist it and will stay on the Supreme Court as long as his health permits him to stay on the Supreme Court,” he concluded.

Check out this full interview below.