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Former Attorney General Eric Holder urged Democrats on Monday to pack the Supreme Court in response to what he called a crisis of “legitimacy” brought about by the appointment of a conservative majority.

President-elect Joe Biden has selected Judge Merrick Garland to serve as his attorney general, according to multiple reports, including Politico and the Associated Press.

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that if Democrats win control of the Senate, they will “right wrongs, balance scales and do justice” in response to Republicans’ confirming Amy Coney Barrett as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Democrat vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris called the Senate’s confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to SCOTUS “illegitimate.”

Comedian and former Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) said Monday on MSNBC that Judge Amy Coney Barrett was “completely hypocritical” for her comments supporting Republicans not taking up Judge Merrick Garland nomination in an election year.

Hillary Clinton told the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg on Wednesday that if Democrats controlled the U.S. Senate, they would not push through a Supreme Court nominee before the election.

The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued in 2016 that the United States Senate should respect that a president’s constitutional power is for “four years, not three years,” when considering Supreme Court appointments. 

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said the Senate “must honor” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s wish to be replaced after a new president is elected, despite demanding the Senate to “do its job” by holding confirmation hearings and voting on former President Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, in 2016.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell debunked the Democrat “myth” that there is not sufficient time to examine and confirm a Supreme Court nominee prior to the presidential election.

Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democrat nominee for president, did not bring up the so-called “Biden Rule” during a speech on Sunday when he demanded the U.S. Senate preserve until after the upcoming election the Supreme Court vacancy resulting from the death of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) stated Sunday that the “same standard must apply” to fill the Supreme Court vacancy as it did in 2016.

Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said Saturday that Republicans “should hold the same position” they did in 2016 to decide who should fill the Supreme Court vacancy.

Democrat lawmakers are warning Republicans against filling a Supreme Court vacancy this year after Republicans ignored former President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland. At the time, Republican leadership stated that “the American people should have a say in the court’s direction” given 2016’s status as a presidential election year.

Democrat presidential candidate and billionaire Tom Steyer took aim at those alongside him on stage at the Democrat presidential debate in New Hampshire on Friday and said his party is “in trouble” ahead of the election.

If Chief Justice Roberts votes for witnesses, he would have to recuse himself, leaving the Supreme Court deadlocked, and the final decision with Judge Merrick Garland.

The confirmation hearings for Kavanaugh made Robert Bork’s hearings look like a day at the beach. At least liberals only lied about Bork’s judicial philosophy. They didn’t accuse him of being Ted Bundy. The next nomination hearing will make Kavanaugh’s look like an ice cream social. Just because it didn’t work this time doesn’t mean Republicans’ work is done. They have to make sure this never happens again.

In this shameful season of partisan lies, it is nearly impossible to run down every deceit before it lands on the lips of some lusty mob, where it becomes a rallying cry to chase decency, dissent and free speech from the public square.

Attorney General Eric Holder claimed Saturday the Senate’s confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh raises concerns about the Supreme Court’s “legitimacy.”

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) demanded in a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Saturday that the FBI investigate Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s statements made under oath during Thursday’s hearing to see if he is telling the truth.

Tuesday on CNN’s “New Day,” network legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said if the Democrats take the majority in the U.S. Senate they will block all of President Donald Trump’sSupreme Court nominee as “payback for Merrick Garland.” Toobin said, “There is also

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh “shouldn’t even be having this hearing because he shouldn’t be up for the Supreme Court. Because it should be Merrick Garland.” Maher said,

“I have given it my all in every case,” Judge Brett Kavanaugh said in his opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, beginning his Supreme Court confirmation speaking of family, friends, and faith, remembering that judges decide cases for “real people” in an American system of “equal rights, equal dignity, and equal justice under law.”

Rev. Al Sharpton said Democrats should not meet with Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.

Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” co-host Joy Behar asked Harvard constitutional law professor Alan Dershowitz why Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was not in jail for blocking Merrick Garland, former President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. Dershowitz said, “They

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wrote to President Donald Trump on Tuesday and urged him to nominate Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said her colleagues in the Senate were ready to play “hardball” to delay President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee’s confirmation to replace Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy until after the 2018 midterms.

The irony is that of all the leaders in Washington, Paul Ryan should have been the last to quit. His was the one part of the establishment that delivered on voters’ priorities.

President Donald Trump and his administration moved rapidly Tuesday to settle on a replacement for ousted FBI Director James Comey. Trump has reportedly interviewed several candidates from a wide gamut of backgrounds and judicial philosophies for the job, as he

Tuesday on Bloomberg, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he recommended chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Merrick Garland to President Donald Trump to replace James Comey as FBI Director. McConnell said, “I have spoken with

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-NV) former chief of staff, Josh Holmes, said on Sunday he believes his former boss would support the nomination of federal judge Merrick Garland as FBI director.

Chris Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax and an early backer of President Donald Trump, told Business Insider that he thinks the President should work out a deal to put Judge Merrick Garland, Barack Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court, in Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat.

NewsMax CEO and Trump confidant Chris Ruddy believes Donald Trump should “do a deal” in which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would retire from the Supreme Court to be replaced by Obama choice Merrick Garland. But you don’t need to have read (or written) Art of the Deal to know it is not profitable to compromise with a weak opponent.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R, KY) recently insisted that the open seat on the U.S. Supreme Court just filled by Justice Neil Gorsuch was a key factor in President Donald Trump’s White House victory last November.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) spoke on the Senate floor on March 9, 2016 to slam the Republicans for not allowing an up-or-down vote on Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court, calling it an “all out effort to cripple” the president’s administration.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday about several topics, including Trump’s position on coal, his rally in West Virginia, the hyper-partisan state of play in American politics today, as well as the nomination of Judge Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf,” Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) stated that Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court is a “court-packing scheme.” And that if Gorsuch was principled, “he would have turned down this nomination, on the basis that