Posted on 10/11/2020 9:15:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Republicans have bragged about “packing the court” under President Donald Trump.
When asked if he will expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court if Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed in a clip, Democratic nominee former Vice President Joe Biden said, “You will know my opinion of court-packing when the election is over. Look, the moment I answer that question, the headline in every one of your papers will be about that. Other than focusing on what’s happening now.”
Anchor Chuck Todd said, “Senator Durbin, did the fact that Vice President Biden used the phrase court-packing, was that a tell of where the vice president stands on this, that he doesn’t want to see this happen?”
Durbin said, “I can tell you that we’re getting this question. It’s a common question being asked because the American people have watched the republicans packing the court on bias the past 3 1/2 years and brag about it. They’ve taken every vacancy and filled it. They sent us, and we approved, only with their votes I might add, ten people whoa have been judged unanimously unqualified by the American Bar Association. Do you know how many judicial nominees came from Obama, who was judged unanimously unqualified? None. So we are dealing with people on the court packed into the court with little or no qualifications who are going to be there for a long time. So it’s understandable. The Republicans raise the issue of court-packing.”
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More insanity
Durbin is a lying dfps. He knows “packing the court” doesn’t mean filling constitutional vacancies. He is depending on his supporters to be uninformed.
Is “packing” dog whistle for “filling a vacant seat?”
Selecting objective Constitutionalists?
False “court packing” narrative #1 STARTED.
> He knows “packing the court” doesn’t mean filling constitutional vacancies. He is depending on his supporters to be uninformed. <
Bingo. As Goebbels said, tell a lie big enough and people will believe it.
>>He knows “packing the court” doesn’t mean filling constitutional vacancies. He is depending on his supporters to be uninformed.<<
Clearly and sadly a well-founded dependency.
Durbin is another entry on the Wall list...
All in all, he’ll just be up against the wall...with apology to Roger Waters...
The Dims are trying to change the definition of “packing the court”, to deflect from what they and Biden are planning to do. Of course the media is complicit and will follow their narrative instead of challenging them on it.
Turban forgets that elections have consequences.
Turban ranks pretty high on my Senators that are Bald-faced Liars and whom I find Repulsive List
Why didn’t obiden fill those vacancies?
The rats are filling the room with smoke by exploiting the Confusion surrounding the meaning of packing the court. Harris launched this effort at the debate. We are going to start hearing “Trump has been packing the court with white conservatives for three years” thereby moving the question of packing away from the true issue. Biden will use this to shift to question away from adding more SC justices. With MSM help he will probably get away with it.
It’s the latest DNC talking point, and it’s the best they can come up with.
The ABA has become a bunch of leftists hacks. You might as well complain about judges who have been declared unanimously unqualified by the CPUSA. Were any of Obama's nominees judged unanimously unqualified by right wing groups? And would Durbin have cared?
They only drag Durbin out when they are on the ropes.
All other lies have failed, release the Durbin!
Yeah, and doing their mandated Constitutional role concerning the Judiciary is packing, i.e., political, too.
And of course, Chuck Todd never corrected Durbin by mentioning that what Trump did was NOT “packing.”
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