{"id":405421,"date":"2021-04-09T23:28:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T03:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=405421"},"modified":"2021-04-09T23:28:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T03:28:17","slug":"mcconnell-slams-biden-over-creating-commission-to-study-court-packing-the-far-left-controls-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcconnell-slams-biden-over-creating-commission-to-study-court-packing-the-far-left-controls-him\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Slams Biden Over Creating Commission To Study Court Packing: The \u2018Far-Left\u2019 Controls Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmcconnell-slams-biden-over-creating-commission-to-study-court-packing-the-far-left-controls-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=405421&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1227.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Democrat President Joe Biden on Friday after the president announced that he was creating a commission to study packing the Supreme Court, a highly controversial partisan action that is opposed by the majority of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/09\/us\/politics\/biden-supreme-court-packing.html\">reported<\/a> that Biden made the decision to move forward with studying court packing because he was \u201cunder pressure from activists.\u201d The commission will be led by two left-wing partisans who served in the Obama administration, and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanTurley\/status\/1380590583438249984\">warned<\/a>&nbsp;that it was \u201cnot a good sign\u201d that the commission was \u201cnotably stacked on one side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Court packing is so controversial that even socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) does not support it and leftist Supreme Court Justices&nbsp;Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-political-power-grab-biden-creates-commission-to-study-packing-the-supreme-court\">warned<\/a> against it, saying that it will delegitimize the court. McConnell noted the remarks made by Ginsburg and Breyer in his statement.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell said that the move by Biden was \u201ca direct assault on our nation\u2019s independent judiciary and yet another sign of the Far Left\u2019s influence over the Biden Administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, more and more elected Democrats have made open disdain for judicial independence a key part of their political platforms,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cA sitting Senator has personally threatened certain justices should they rule against liberal interests. Multiple Senate Democrats signed a threatening brief suggesting the Court needed to either deliver liberal rulings or face being \u2018restructured.\u2019 The President spent most of his campaign playing coy on the issue, but has now admitted from the safety of a four-year term that he views the judiciary as \u2018out of whack.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"30\">\n<p><em>So anyone who was surprised by the creation of a commission on packing the Supreme Court simply hasn\u2019t been paying attention. This faux-academic study of a nonexistent problem fits squarely within liberals\u2019 years-long campaign to politicize the Court, intimidate its members, and subvert its independence. This is not some new, serious, or sober pivot away from Democrats\u2019 political attacks on the Court. It\u2019s just an attempt to clothe those ongoing attacks in fake legitimacy. It\u2019s disappointing that anyone, liberal or conservative, would lend credence to this attack by participating in the commission. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Of course, this is just another example of the liberal preference for attacking norms and institutions, rather than working within them. When Democrats lose a floor vote, it\u2019s time to change Senate rules. When they lose a presidential election, it\u2019s time to abolish the Electoral College. And when activists\u2019 cases fall flat against the rule of law, it\u2019s time to ignore Justices Ginsburg and Breyer and pack the Supreme Court. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>President Biden campaigned on a promise of lowering the temperature and uniting a divided nation. If he really meant it, he would stop giving oxygen to a dangerous, antiquated idea and stand up to the partisans hawking it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mike Davis, founder and president of the Article III Project (A3P), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-political-power-grab-biden-creates-commission-to-study-packing-the-supreme-court\">warned<\/a> that Biden\u2019s move was \u201calarming\u201d and must \u201cbe met with the harshest of denunciations from both sides of the aisle\u201d because packing the Supreme Court would lead to \u201cirreversible damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPacking the Supreme Court would destroy centuries of hard work from Democrat- and Republican-appointed justices to insulate the high court from partisan politics,\u201d Davis warned. \u201cIt also raises serious red flags as to what unconstitutional actions President Biden is planning that a more favorable Supreme Court might tolerate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) called Biden\u2019s move \u201cnothing more than a political power grab,\u201d while Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) warned that Democrats were willing to \u201cdestroy our institutions to seize power.\u201d Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) warned, \u201cThis is not a drill anymore \u2026 the Left is coming for everything!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Democrat President Joe Biden on Friday after the president announced that he was creating a commission to study packing the Supreme Court, a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311955,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1227.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"McConnell Slams Biden Over Creating Commission To Study Court Packing: The \u2018Far-Left\u2019 Controls Him","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1227.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"McConnell Slams Biden Over Creating Commission To Study Court Packing: The \u2018Far-Left\u2019 Controls Him","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}