Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Accused the press of not accurately addressing Biden’s opinion on the Supreme Court extension.
“I’ve never been one to complain about fake news. But I want to start with the total frustration over the coverage that most of you involved about the Supreme Court expansion,” McConnell told the weekly. conference.
He argued that the media had rendered a bad service by often failing to note in their coverage that liberal judges Stephen Breyer and the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg were of the opinion that the court should stay with nine judges.
“And yet I read story after story after story that does not mention that Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, two of the most important liberals in modern times, are opposed to court packaging,” McConnell said.
“Nine seems to be a good number. It’s been like that for a long time,” Ginsburg said in an interview in July 2019. “I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to sue.”
So, McConnell demanded of the press, “why do not you take the fact into account in these objective analyzes of this issue?”
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Biden recently signed an executive order setting up its 36-member dual commission to study potential reforms at the Supreme Court, including whether the court should expand beyond nine judges and whether the lifelong appointment of judges should be maintained. The panel will have 180 days to complete the report.
But McConnell said he is not being misled by the ‘faux-academic study of a non-existent problem’.
“This new court packaging commission is not a serious pivot of the Democrats’ political attacks on the court,” McConnell said. said earlier this month. “It’s just an attempt to cover up the attacks in false legitimacy.”
Judges Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett were all confirmed under McConnell’s supervision, though Kavanaugh’s confirmation turned into one of the bitterest battles on Capitol Hill in years. Similarly, when President Obama nominated Merrick Garland in the Supreme Court after the death of Judge Antonin Scalia in 2016, McConnell continued his nomination for months until it became difficult when the US elected a new president.
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McConnell is also largely responsible for the number of new circuit judges currently serving across the country.
“As I have said many times, our work with the government to renew our federal courts is not a partisan or political victory,” McConnell said last June after overseeing his 200th judicial appointment. “This is a victory for the rule of law and for the Constitution itself. If judges who apply the law and the Constitution as it is written see one of our colleagues as a threat to their political agenda, then I would problem is with their agenda. ‘