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A Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday that he was open to packing the Supreme Court with more justices if Joe Biden is elected president. Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” if his mind is open to expanding the number of judges into the court to counterbalance conservative Amy Coney Barrett if she gets confirmed, Delaware Sen. Chris Coons said “yes.” He compared his position to his party’s presidential nominee, who has ( refused to be drawn on the issue — with Biden) only saying he will ( announce it before the election.)[snip]“It is the Republican...

There’s a caveat to this claim: Sen. Coons hasn’t actually seen the transcripts. Nevertheless, Coons tells MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell he “believes” they exist.“Is the FBI Director being forthcoming enough with the intelligence committees?” Mitchell asks. Sen. Coons replies, “I think it’s important that the outcome of that counter-intelligence investigation be fully shared with the intelligence committees, both in the House and the Senate.“There are transcripts that provide very helpful, very critical insights into whether or not Russian intelligence and senior Russian political leaders, including Vladimir Putin, were cooperating, were colluding with the Trump campaign at the highest levels to...

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), Iran nuclear kabuki last year, told the Council on Foreign Relations June 23 that the Joint Plan of Action, JCPOA had been successfully implemented so far... Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton is for the agreement, but Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been skeptical. Asked about Trump’s threats to renegotiate the agreement, Coons called that possibility “a fool’s errand.” Coons said that personal relationships between Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, and between Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz and Ali Salehi, Iranian Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] — have been apparently been effective....

Despite money and ads, poll shows O'Donnell still badly trails Coons in Delaware Senate race BEN EVANS Associated Press 10:35 a.m. CDT, October 28, 2010 The survey released Thursday by Fairleigh Dickinson University-PublicMind shows Coons holding a commanding lead of 21 points, with 57 percent of likely voters saying they will vote for Coons compared to just 36 percent for O'Donnell.

DARFUR RHETORIC JUST DOESN'T MAKE MILITARY SENSE By Christine O'Donnell The News Journal June 9, 2007 In a remote African region called Darfur, the terrorist group Janjaweed is committing brutal genocide by riding in on horses, setting fire to villanges, and slaughtering Christians. It is said this massacre is perpetrated by the Sudanese government and therefore its citizens are left nearly defenseless. Until recently few knew of this region and even fewer new of the tragedy. It was dismissed as a civil war. Fortunately, the eyes of the world are now focused on this crisis - so focused that it...

<p>O'Donnell referenced an article Coons wrote in college where he referred to himself as "a bearded Marxist."</p> <p>Prompted by host Sean Hannity about the years-old comment from Coons, she said, "if the media is going to attack me for statements I made in my 20s, that's fair game. He made some very anti-American statements, apologizing for America and calling himself a bearded Marxist."</p>

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The stunning victory Tuesday by a tea-party backed candidate in Delaware’s Republican Senate primary has roiled the Republican Party and given Democrats fresh hope that they can keep their majority in the November elections. Little-known conservative Christine O’Donnell, 41, pulled off a major upset by defeating moderate Republican Mike Castle, by 53% to 47%, in a low-turnout primary. The result reverberated across the political landscape, rousing tea-party members, dispiriting mainstream Republicans and delighting Democrats. Until a few weeks ago the 71-year-old Castle, the state’s lone congressman for 17 years, had been expected to romp in the primary...

An article Democrat Chris Coons wrote for his college newspaper may not go over so well in corporation-friendly Delaware, where he already faces an uphill battle for Vice President Joe Biden’s old Senate seat. The title? “Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist.” In the article, Coons, then 21 years old and about to graduate from Amherst College, chronicled his transformation from a sheltered, conservative-minded college student who had worked for former GOP Delaware Sen. William Roth and had campaigned for Ronald Reagan in 1980 into a cynical young adult who was distrustful of American power and willing to...

The media is fawning all over Chris Coons right now. The are just as ready to anoint him to the US Senate today as they were to anoint Mike Castle yesterday. Yet what do we really know about Chris Coons. While everyone is busy micro- investigating Christine O'Donnell we hear little about Coons-other than how lucky he is and how he will win. Well, I don't know much about Chris Coons either. But a little checking brings up a disturbing trait he has in common with Obama. It seems that Chris Coons likes to restrict or hinder access to public...