Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, warned Democrats on Monday against trying to “rush” President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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.