CNN: Even If Dems Pick Up Both GA Senate Seats, It’s Unlikely They’ll Pack the Supreme Court

‘Joe Manchin has made clear, and he would be the 50th Democratic senator in some ways, that he was never going to support packing the Supreme Court’

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BERMAN: "Yeah. Joe Manchin has made clear, and he would be the 50th Democratic senator in some ways, that he was never going to support packing the Supreme Court. He was never going to support, in his mind, D.C. statehood or Puerto Rico statehood. So that wasn’t likely and isn’t likely to happen even with a majority. The Democrats would have needed much more. But, but, I don’t want to underplay this significance of this either, Patricia. Because Merrick Garland would be sitting on the Supreme Court right now if the Democrats had had a 50/50 Senate with then Joe Biden breaking the tie under the Obama Administration. Merrick Garland never got a hearing in the Judiciary Committee, never got a vote in the full Senate to be sitting on the Supreme Court. That would not happen now.”

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