Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Accused the press of failing to accurately cover President Biden’s view on the expansion of the Supreme Court.
“I’ve never been one to complain about fake news. But I want to start with the total frustration with the coverage most of you have been dealing with regarding the Supreme Court expansion issue,” McConnell said in the weekly press. conference.
He argued that the media has done a disservice by often failing to note in their reporting that liberal judges Stephen Breyer and the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg believed the court should stay with nine judges.
“And yet I read story after story after story that doesn’t mention that Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, two of the foremost liberals in the modern era, are against the court,” McConnell said.
“Nine seems to be a good number. It has been like that for a long time,” Ginsburg said in a July 2019 interview. “I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to take the court.”
So, McConnell demanded of the press, “why don’t you include that fact in these objective analyzes of the matter?”
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Biden recently signed an executive order setting up his 36-member bipartisan committee to study possible Supreme Court reforms, including whether the court should go beyond nine judges and whether to retain the lifetime nomination of judges. The panel has 180 days from the first meeting to complete its report.
But McConnell said he wasn’t fooled by the “bogus academic study of a nonexistent problem.”
“This new commission to wrap up the court is not a serious pivot away from the Democrats’ political attacks on the Court,” McConnell said earlier this month. “It’s just an attempt to coat those attacks with false legitimacy.”
Judges Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett were all confirmed under McConnell’s supervision, although Kavanaugh’s confirmation turned into one of the most bitter battles on Capitol Hill in years. Likewise, when President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016, McConnell held off his nomination for months, until it became awkward when the US elected a new president.
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McConnell is also largely responsible for the number of new circuit court judges currently serving across the country.
“As I’ve 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 nomination. “It is a victory for the rule of law and for the constitution itself. If judges applying the law and the constitution as they are written meet one of our colleagues as a threat to their political agenda, the problem would be, I would say: is with their agenda. “