{"id":40192,"date":"2020-10-12T11:35:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40192"},"modified":"2020-10-12T11:35:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T15:35:02","slug":"chris-wallace-must-be-getting-heat-for-his-debate-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40192","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wallace Must Be Getting Heat For His Debate Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article about an interview on ” Fox News Sunday.” Chris Wallace, who hosts the show, was conducting an interview of Democratic Delaware Sen. Chris Coons.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Wallace specifically asked Coons<\/a> to weigh in on the idea of adding justices to the Supreme Court, and the Delaware Senator pivoted to argue that the Trump administration\u2019s focus on filling judicial vacancies amounted to court packing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For once, Chris Wallace got it right. The article notes:<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me just say \u2014 I\u2019m just going to say, that\u2019s a different issue than packing the court,\u201d Wallace concluded. \u201cIf that\u2019s the question, whether or not the court should \u2014 the Senate should vote to confirm Barrett, that\u2019s different than changing the number of justices on the court. Senator Coons, I got to leave it there, thank you.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the record, packing the court means adding more justices to the Supreme Court in order to impact the balance of liberal and conservative judges. Filling judicial vacancies is one of the responsibilities of the President. Because of the increasing rancor in the Senate, a large number of the nominees of President Obama were not confirmed, and there were a lot of judicial vacancies when President Trump took office. He promptly began to fill these vacancies. Getting judicial nominees passed is much easier when the President and the Senate are held by the same party. Our Founding Fathers did not intend for that to be the case (they disliked the idea of political parties), but that is where we are today.<\/p>\n

I give credit to Chris Wallace for at least correcting Senator Coons on his talking point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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