While Nancy Pelosi’s over there denying that the Democratic Party has an anti-Semitism problem, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is over here focused like a laser on the issues that matter. Namely, “Mitch McConnell’s court-packing agenda”:
Mitch McConnell’s court-packing agenda:
– Confirm extreme right-wing judicial nominees as quickly as possible.
– Confirm extreme right-wing judicial nominees as quickly as possible.
– Confirm extreme right-wing judicial nominees as quickly as possible.
We must #DitchMitch— Senate Democrats (@dscc) April 16, 2019
Team Mitch would like a word about words:
— Team Mitch (@Team_Mitch) April 16, 2019
Inigo Montoya speaks the truth.
Which millennial intern who has no idea what court packing actually means wrote this tweet?
— Cʜɪᴢᴀᴅ (@AUChizad) April 16, 2019
Is the intern running your Twitter ignorant, or do you really think people won't know what "court packing" actually means?
— Literally An M551 Sheridan (@PhilthyPhil2012) April 16, 2019
Yo. That's not court packing.
— Robert Laurent (@RobLaurent) April 16, 2019
This isn’t court-packing.
— . (@PtSaq1993) April 16, 2019
Well, first off, this isn’t court packing. Soooooooo…
— scody smalls (@s_codysmalls) April 16, 2019
This isn’t what court packing means
— ἐκ ὑμῶν (@BenjaminThiccc) April 16, 2019
NARRATOR: That's not what court packing means. https://t.co/jHHkSVyAKL
— RBe (@RBPundit) April 16, 2019
THIS IS NOT WHAT COURT PACKING MEANS. STOP USING THE WORD WRONG https://t.co/L6yKmUEpJ0
— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair (@senatorshoshana) April 16, 2019
Nominating judges to fill vacancies is not court packing
— Stephen (@sjbrownjr0) April 16, 2019
Filling vacancies isn’t court packing chief. Next. https://t.co/j1daOADBRS
— Calli Norton (@CalliNorton) April 16, 2019
you know that’s not court packing right?
— Federalist21 (@federalist21) April 16, 2019
We’re not sure they do. If they do, they definitely don’t care.
— 형 (@harrysan) April 16, 2019
Nailed it.
It's not packing when you seek to fill vacancies. It's only packing if you seek to create new vacancies on a court panel where none previously existed.
Only one party actually supports court-packing. Which party's Presidential nominees have endorsed this? The Democrats.
— El Jefe (@ElJefeTulum) April 16, 2019
Don’t like McConnell in general, don’t like what he’s doing here, but it’s still not court packing. What 2020 dems are planning is court packing. Good try with the propaganda tho
— Jahlil Okafor Stan Account (@TeldrassilJ) April 16, 2019
That’s not court packing.
But this is:https://t.co/snzDd0rWqa https://t.co/rRcmweq0ls
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) April 16, 2019
Yep. More from the Washington Examiner’s Jerry Dunleavy:
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proclaimed that Democrats should “pack the Supreme Court of the United States of America,” she was floating a fringe fantasy of increasing the number of justices from nine to 15 as a way of kick-starting a left-wing transformation of America.
Now, the idea has gone mainstream. No longer the little-known primary candidate she was when she was speaking on Oct. 1 last year, Ocasio-Cortez, 29, is in the House of Representatives and her massive social media profile has propelled her to international fame.
AOC, as she is almost universally known, is one of the most prominent faces of the Democrats. Her pronouncements and the uncompromisingly radical section of the progressive movement she appeals to is pushing the Democratic party to the left.
Four 2020 candidates are following her lead and have endorsed or are open to “packing the court.” The pressure group Pack the Courts is advertising using Means of Production, a self-described pro-Marxist production firm that produced viral online ads for Ocasio-Cortez.
So maybe Senate Dems’ beef with Mitch McConnell is really just an exercise in shameless deflection. Yeah, that sounds about right.
We're in the midst of a judicial vacancy crisis and the nominees have been rated by the ABA to be better qualified than even Obama's nominees—and we all know the ABA is not lax on conservatives.
Maybe stop playing politics with the courts?
— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) April 16, 2019
Playing politics is all they have left.
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