This new court-packing commission is not some serious pivot away from Democrats’ political attacks on the Court. It’s just an attempt to clothe those attacks in fake legitimacy.
My full statement: pic.twitter.com/qX639r68M3
— Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) April 9, 2021
In a ridiculous display of conservative petulance and gas-lighting, Mitch McConnell tweeted that “This new court-packing commission is not some serious pivot away from Democrats’ political attacks on the Court. It’s just an attempt to clothe those attacks in fake legitimacy.” McConnell said Friday. McConnell goes on to insist that Democrats have no respect for “Judicial Independence”, conveniently ignoring the fact that every single judge he appointed while the former guy was in office was vetted by the Federalist Society, an organization that, much like the NRA, has gone from being a bunch of nominally rational far-right extremists with a penchant for dirty tricks and pearl-clutching to a cluster of full on right-wing nut-job mental patients. Read more here.