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He noted that both Ginsburg and Breyer in recent years said that “nine is the right number” with regard to the appropriate number of court seats, calling them two of the most influential members of the Supreme Court in “recent decades.”
“And yet I read story after story after story that do not mention that Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, two of the most important liberals in modern time, are opposed to court packing,” he said.
“So why don’t you include in these objective analyses of this issue that fact?” he added.
McConnell noted that he doesn’t often publicly scold the press over what he views as “fake news” but added that he felt compelled to speak up after reading stories about Biden’s Supreme Court commission that failed to mention Ginsburg’s and Breyer’s views.
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Cotton brought up his amendment roughly 11 hours into the Senate s vote-a-rama to create a point of order against any future legislation that would expand the Supreme Court.
Had Cotton been successful, it could have given Republicans a foothold in the Senate rules to challenge court expansion legislation going forward; it would have inserted into the Senate rules that it was out of order to consider such legislation, thereby requiring three-fifths of the Senate to vote to overturn
that if a senator wanted to bring up such a bill.
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Cotton pointed to calls from some progressives to expand the Supreme Court when introducing his amendment.