Democrats laying groundwork for court-packing by lying about Mitch McConnell

Published April 16, 2019 7:42pm ET



As the idea of packing the courts starts to become a more mainstream position on the Left, Democrats are now laying the groundwork for such a move by lying about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s efforts to confirm conservative judges.

On Tuesday, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the campaign arm seeking to return Democrats to the majority in the Senate, tweeted that “Mitch McConnell’s court-packing agenda” was to “Confirm extreme right-wing judicial nominees as quickly as possible.”

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