Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on Tuesday warned against an effort to expand the size of the nation’s highest court, citing potential damage to public trust in the judiciary branch. Breyer, a Clinton appointee who frequently sides with the liberal justices in decisions, raised alarm in his two-hour lecture at Harvard University Law School about an increasingly popular perception of the Court as a political body that changes according to political trends. Politically motivated structural changes, such as adding seats to the bench, will only feed that perception, “further eroding that trust,” he said, reported Harvard Law Today. “Put abstractly, the Court’s power, like that of any tribunal, must depend upon the public’s willingness to respect its decisions, even those with which they disagree and even when they believe a decision seriously mistaken,” said Breyer, adding that such respect should not be taken for granted. Although a recent poll shows …