JUDICIARY

Partisan politics have found their way into elections across the country as Election Day draws nearer and the GOP-controlled Senate pushes to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court just days before Nov. 3.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer exchanged jabs Thursday,after the vote by Senate Republicans to advance Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that Joe Biden’s plan to form a commission to “reform” the court system meant that he was “open to” court packing. 

“First of all, look at her age as well as her background which is so stellar and outstanding. She is 48 years old. Justice Ginsburg was 87 when she passed from this life. So, just doing the arithmetic, she has the potential to stay on, lets say, for four decades, so presidents will come and go. Four, five, or six presidents may come and go,” Starr told “America’s Newsroom.”

Joe Biden and the Democratic Party want to expand the Supreme Court to at least 13 seats to make it liberal if Republicans succeed in confirming Amy Coney Barrett, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told "Fox & Friends" on Thursday.

Senate Democrats didn't show up for the Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday morning to advance Amy Coney Barrett's nomination and instead stood outside the Capitol to protest the entire nomination process as an unfair "sham."

Senate Republicans succeeded Thursday in winning Judiciary Committee approval for the confirmation of conservative Judge Amy Coney Barrett for a seat on the Supreme Court, setting the stage for a vote expected in the full Senate next week that will make her a high court justice.

The full Senate is expected to vote early next week to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said, if elected, he would form a commission to examine "how to reform the court system."

The Senate Judiciary Committee's vote to report Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett's out of committee is moving forward on Thursday, Republicans say, despite a declaration from Democrats that they will boycott the Thursday markup in protest of how close Republicans are moving the nomination to Election Day.