Dems warn GOP: Don't fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 or we'll retaliate

In a sweeping statement of intent, the Democratic National Committee is poised to add language to the party’s 2020 platform endorsing “structural court reforms to increase transparency and accountability.”

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The draft language, reviewed by NBC News and expected to be approved later this month, denounces Republicans as having “packed our federal courts with unqualified, partisan judges who consistently rule for corporations, the wealthy, and Republican interests” and for “blocking a Democratic president from appointing a justice to the Supreme Court.”

Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said she has been “talking with people who have different ideas about what we can do — including adding to the court, including having certain circuit court judges cycle in and other ideas” like term limits.

“I’m open to those kinds of suggestions,” she said.

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