Durbin: Republicans Have Been Packing the
Court for the Past Three-and-a-Half Years—
‘They Brag About It’
Breitbart Clips,
by
Pam Key
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
10/11/2020 11:08:09 AM
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Republicans have bragged about “packing the court” under President Donald Trump.When asked if he will expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court if Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed in a clip, Democratic nominee former Vice President Joe Biden said, “You will know my opinion of court-packing when the election is over. Look, the moment I answer that question, the headline in every one of your papers will be about that. Other than focusing on what’s happening now.”Anchor Chuck Todd said, “Senator Durbin, did the fact that Vice President Biden used the phrase court-packing,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 10/11/2020 11:12:31 AM (No. 569154)
Putting Originalists and Federalists in the courts is not "packing" the courts. It is protecting the integrity of the courts and preventing them from being used as de facto legislative bodies.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 10/11/2020 11:15:53 AM (No. 569158)
They’re lying with deliberateness, banking that their target Lofos will not know the difference between “packing” and “nominating/confirming.”
Remember, they did (do) this with health “care” and health “insurance.”
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
BarryNo 10/11/2020 11:17:28 AM (No. 569160)
Whenever the democrats are in charge, they replace every vacancy that comes up. They fire every conservative they can. They have over the years, created the swamp. We should fire everyone in the beaurocracy, on principle, then hold interviews to replace them.
And get rid of government unions.
Till then, they will resist the will of the electorate. What do WE know, afterall.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
dwa 10/11/2020 11:18:25 AM (No. 569162)
The newest Dem talking point and typically a lie. This is what they do, conflate two unconflatable things. Trump/Repubs have been filling existing seats on the judiciary, Democrats are talking increasing the number of seats on the Supreme Court so they can have liberals outnumber conservatives. The two are not the same. Another example, mail in voting. Requesting a ballot so you can vote by mail is not the same as Dem governors mailing out ballots universally to anyone registered to vote even though they did not request them. And another, immigration. Dems like to say Repubs are against immigration, but they conflate and use the term immigration to describe both legal AND illegal immigration. This is one of their standard tricks and the media is either too stoopid or corrupt (or both) and just parrot their talking points.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
FunOne 10/11/2020 11:22:06 AM (No. 569165)
I am 75 years old, and in my entire lifetime it has been accepted that the majority of the SCOTUS has been liberal. We lived with that, and we lived through that. Suddenly, the entire structure of this body needs to change because for the first time in over 100 years the liberal democrats appear to not have a lock on the outcome? Be it the Supreme court, electoral college, or immigration control--the democrats insist on destroying anything that is a threat to their power grab.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
paral04 10/11/2020 11:22:51 AM (No. 569168)
And what did FDR do? He was a Democrat remember?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/11/2020 11:28:50 AM (No. 569178)
Poor little Dickie. Would he have been a nicer person if he’d just been a little taller?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
padiva 10/11/2020 11:46:54 AM (No. 569195)
Yep! And PDT was able to appoint lots of judges because BO did not appoint judges while BO was POTUS.
Ain't it grand that BO was too lazy to do his job?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 10/11/2020 11:49:37 AM (No. 569200)
Poor Dick... He doesn't even understand what 'packing' means... But he's only a US D-Rat Senator, so we can't we can't expect too much.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
snapper451 10/11/2020 11:57:41 AM (No. 569207)
Obviously this phrase "Packing the court" has tested well in Democrat focus groups. Just like they focus tested the phrases for pre-existing conditions and take away your healthcare. Facts don't matter -Democrats just want to win on lies.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/11/2020 12:19:26 PM (No. 569238)
Dickie doesn’t even know what court-packing is. The Democrats propose to pack the court by adding additional justices to the present nine. President Trump has not done that. He has done what the Constitution (and the vaunted Ginsberg) called for: Replaced justices as they left the court. Ginsberg herself expressed displeasure with trying to stay with an eight-justice court. Maybe the person who concocted her death bed “wish” wasn’t aware of her previously expressed position on justice replacement?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
valinva 10/11/2020 12:21:07 PM (No. 569239)
Words have specific meanings but not to Democrats when they can change the meaning to suit their needs. The equally dishonest leftist media does not question but instead repeats the lie.
From the dictionary:
court packing
noun U.S. History.
an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Kate318 10/11/2020 12:23:44 PM (No. 569243)
Uh huh. That’s why we have Obamacare...because our courts are packed. Stick to wearing turbans, Dickie.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Tusker 10/11/2020 12:39:42 PM (No. 569258)
And your point you Sorossuckingsecularseditionist?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 10/11/2020 1:28:40 PM (No. 569299)
Durbin is one of the Ted Baxter Seanators, dumber than a box of rocks and will say any stupid thing that the tell him to say.
Total garbage, no relation to reality.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 10/11/2020 1:46:24 PM (No. 569316)
You just gotta love the Rats' Orwellian abuse of the English language. To equate filling vacancies with Court Packing is beyond sophomoric, it's an insult to our intelligence. But of course the libtard media dutifully play right along with the Rats and their bullschiff. They all really ought to be ashamed and embarrassed, but don't hold your breath for that.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 10/11/2020 1:55:11 PM (No. 569323)
Only Democrats are allowed to nominate judges (/s). Dirty Dick Durbin is running his mouth.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Namma 10/11/2020 2:04:42 PM (No. 569334)
Oh no dipshiff Durbin..hussien packed the court. he put two people on that court that are not even Constitutional lawyers. Sotomyer and kagan are thank you appointments for lying to kerp hussien out of trouble. Thats stacking the court. The men PRESIDENT TRUMP appointed are constitutional lawyerd. AS IT SHOULD BE. BTW, RBG was an activist.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 10/11/2020 3:33:09 PM (No. 569441)
The trash from Illinois has spoken.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 10/11/2020 3:35:15 PM (No. 569443)
Dip-weed Durbin now tries changing the definition of "packing" as only Democrats do.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
joew9 10/11/2020 4:20:29 PM (No. 569493)
They always try to get the voters confused about every issue. Now they are trying to redefine what packing the court means.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
anniebc 10/11/2020 5:19:37 PM (No. 569539)
These fools are always trying to change the definition of things to justify their evil and illegal activity.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 10/11/2020 6:04:09 PM (No. 569579)
Does Dick Dustbin think most people are really stupid enough to believe his blather? Nasty Pelousy was just babbling about the 25th amendment like someone ODed on Häagen-Dazs. This is is dem leadership? I expect screw loose rants from Mad Max or AOC but leadership is supposed to have a better grip on their behavior and thinking. The whole party has fallen over a cliff. When Trump is reelected, their fall will end with a hard stop.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 10/11/2020 6:36:59 PM (No. 569605)
#23, the problem is that a substantial part of his voting base IS stupid enough to believe this stuff.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
lakerman1 10/11/2020 6:44:50 PM (No. 569612)
durbin is one of the baby-killing Catholics in the Senate. He is also exquisitely unqualified to serve, in my opinion.
republican senators voted to approve Stephen Breyer to the Supreme Court, and Breyer had worked for Dead Ted Kennedy. They also approved Ruthie, who had abortion blood on her hands.
Was that packing the Court?
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