What’s with calling this “court packing”? All he is doing is attempting to fill vacancies. What BS!
Don’t panic. Even in the minority, Grassley used the rules to block some of the more noxious Obama judicial picks. As chair of Judiciary, he has cleared batches of Trump nominees through committee by holding sessions late Friday afternoon when no on wanted to be around.
McConnell is passively-aggressively trying to dodge blame for lack of Senate floor action. Blue slips are in committee and have nothing to do with the floor votes.