Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson Refuses to Join with Ginsburg, Breyer in Opposing Court-Packing

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during her confirmation hearing on Tuesday refused to join with the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and outgoing Justice Stephen Breyer in opposing court-packing.

Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) asked Jackson where she stood on court-packing, noting that although it is a congressional decision, justices have weighed in on the subject before.

Grassley specifically asked her if she would side with liberal justices Ginsburg and Breyer, who opposed court-packing.

Jackson refused to say that she agreed with them against court-packing, and said she did not want to answer because she was so determined to stay in her “lane.”

On Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told CBS’s Face the Nation that her refusal to weigh in on court-packing was problematic.

“I asked her to defend the court. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice Breyer both publicly opposed court-packing, that is, trying to increase the number of court members in order to get an outcome you like,” said McConnell.

McConnell was referring to a meeting he had with Jackson this month, prior to the hearings.

“That would have been an easy thing for her to do, to defend the integrity of the court. She wouldn’t do that,” he said.

Leftist activists have called for increasing the number of Supreme Court seats from the current nine to 13, in order to overcome the current conservative leaning of the Supreme Court. There are six justices appointed by Republican presidents, and three appointed by Democrat presidents.

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