The Democrats, as predicted, are telling out and out lies to try and stop the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. The latest lie is that the very nomination of Barrett is court packing. They full well know it is not.

They also know that court packing, as their own Franklin Roosevelt tried to do, is prohibited by the Judiciary Act of 1869. That set the size of the court at 9. Anyone would have to repeal that, as Roosevelt found out to his disappointment, to pack the court. But that doesn’t stop Democrats from lying about it.

Sen. Chris Coons just told Chris Wallace on Fox that the Senate confirming Amy Coney Barrett "constitutes court-packing." That statement is constitutionally unintelligible . . . https://t.co/8Vfz9KfAZd

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) October 11, 2020

Go Ad-Free, Get Exclusive Shows and Content, Go Premium Today - $1 Trial

The Washington Free Beacon picks up the story, “As Joe Biden continues to dodge questions about whether he would expand the Supreme Court in office, his ally Sen. Chris Coons (D., Del.) said the Republican push to confirm nominee Amy Coney Barrett ‘constitutes court packing’ in its own right. ‘As I will lay out in my questioning this week, we shouldn’t be having this hearing with two members of the [Senate Judiciary Committee] infected with COVID,’ Coons said on Sunday. ‘It’s rushed, it constitutes court packing, and her views are too extreme to qualify her to serve on this court.’ Court packing, however, refers to increasing the number of Supreme Court justices from its current slate of nine. President Donald Trump nominated Barrett to fill the ninth seat that opened after Ruth Bader Ginsburg died last month. Barrett’s hearings begin on Monday, and if her confirmation is successful, she would be the first Trump Supreme Court nominee to replace a liberal-leaning justice.”

So which is it, Coons? Rushed? Nope. Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg said it was a legitimate executive move. COVID-19? What the heck does that have to do with it? Court packing? We’ve already dealt with that lie. And then he gets to it. He doesn’t like her ideology and he’s willing to lie to the American people to stop her ascension to the high court.

Go Ad-Free, Get Exclusive Shows and Content, Go Premium Today - $1 Trial

Also playing games, Joe Biden won’t answer whether he supports court packing. In 2019 he said court packing would destroy the Supreme Court’s credibility. In 1983 he called it a “bonehead idea.” Then on Friday, he said voters did not deserve to know where he stood on the issue before the election. Think about that. Voters do not deserve to know.

What else don’t voters deserve to know about? His mental infirmity? The real radical plans of his supporters if he is elected? What foreign agencies have the Democrats allied with to run Antifa and Black Lives Matter?

But these lies won’t work in the Barrett case. We have the votes. Chris Coons and Joe Biden will lose this one and they know it. Hence their desperation, hence their lies.