Sen. Durbin sidesteps questions about whether he supports progressive calls to expand the size of the US Supreme Court. - MeetThePress
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the number-two Democrat in the Senate, sidestepped questions Sunday about whether he supports progressive calls to expand the size of the U.S. Supreme Court and accused Republicans of packing the federal courts by
“The American people have watched Republicans packing the court over the last three and a half years, and they brag about it, that they’ve taken every vacancy and filled it,” Durbin said during an exclusive interview on “Meet the Press.” Durbin lamented how Republicans refused to hold a hearing for then-President Obama's Supreme Court nominee when he was nominated in March of 2016.
Instead, Durbin criticized the nomination, saying that Barrett is being “sent on assignment to the Supreme Court by President Trump” to “eliminate the Affordable Care Act” and “be there if the president needs her on an election contest.”
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