McConnell, GOP slam Biden's executive order on SCOTUS: 'Disdain for judicial independence'
By Tal Axelrod - 04/09/21 07:27 PM EDT
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other Republicans hammered President Biden’s executive order establishing a commission to study whether to add seats to the Supreme Court.
McConnell in a statement said the order and growing calls from liberals to expand the high court marked “open disdain for judicial independence†and that Biden’s action marked a “direct assault†on the judiciary.
“Rational observers know well there is nothing about the structure or operation of the judicial branch that requires ‘study,’ †McConnell said in a statement.
“This faux-academic study of a nonexistent problem fits squarely within liberals’ years-long campaign to politicize the Court, intimidate its members, and subvert its independence,†he added.
McConnell went on to accuse Biden of violating his vow to reduce political animosity in the country, saying such a commission would be divisive.
“President Biden campaigned on a promise of lowering the temperature and uniting a divided nation,†he said. “If he really meant it, he would stop giving oxygen to a dangerous, antiquated idea and stand up to the partisans hawking it.â€
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