HAWORTH: What Is ‘Packing’ The Supreme Court, And Will The Democrats Really Go There?

In the aftermath of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, the Democrats reacted by presenting the Republicans — and the country as a whole — with two options. The first is to honor Ginsburg’s “dying wish” and wait until after the upcoming election to nominate her replacement. The second is to respond to the Republican Senate’s constitutionally valid selection of a nominee by moving to “expand” the Supreme Court.

“Mitch McConnell set the precedent. No Supreme Court vacancies filled in an election year,” Democratic Sen. Ed Markey (MA) tweeted Friday. “If he violates it, when Democrats control the Senate in the next Congress, we must abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court.”