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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered remarks today on the Senate floor concerning the Supreme Court.

“The Supreme Court is under attack. Prominent Democrats say that it must do what they want and not what the laws and Constitution require," McConnell stated.

“They’ve incited violence against the Court. We’ve had to put Justices under 24/7 police protection," he added. “Even so, a deranged young man is about to go on trial for trying to kill a Justice and his family while they slept in order to change the outcome of a case.”

McConnell highlighted polling from last year indicating that the Court was the branch of government with the highest level of public trust. However, he criticized Democrats for their continued campaign against the Court’s legitimacy over the past eight years.

“Radical liberals have called for court packing,” he noted. “Influential members of this body, including the Senior Senator from Rhode Island and the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, have threatened ominously that ‘perhaps the Court can heal itself before the public demands it be ‘restructured’.”

He accused "the Left" of waging daily warfare against Justices by illegally picketing their neighborhoods, harming their spouses’ careers, and spying on them.

“Today, the Biden-Harris Administration – which desperately wants these radical votes – is once again jumping into the fray,” McConnell claimed. He referenced an op-ed by President Biden proposing term limits on Justices and questioned its constitutionality.

“He wants what he calls an ‘ethics code’ – but that already exists," McConnell argued. "What the President is actually proposing is a stealth process for people other than Justices to decide cases."

McConnell pointed out that President Biden had previously established a commission to investigate changes to the Supreme Court. “This morning, the President thanked this commission for its ‘insightful analysis’ that supposedly informed his reform proposals,” he said, noting that this commission did not recommend any specific actions.

McConnell concluded by questioning why "the Biden-Harris Administration [is] so willing to put ...the independent judiciary...to the torch.” He suggested it was because "it stands in their way."

“With pictures of the Justices on screen, one commercial intones that the Supreme Court has made the President ‘above the law’ because [former] President [Trump] ‘asked them to.’ What happened to respecting court decisions?” McConnell asked.

He criticized how "the Biden-Harris Justice Department took an extreme position in [prosecuting] their electoral opponent" and subsequently lost in court. Instead of accepting defeat, McConnell claimed they responded with attacks on Justices who ruled against them.

“This from folks who love to remind us that ‘You can’t only love your country when you win,’” McConnell remarked. “Perhaps [President Biden] and Vice President [Harris] should take a good look in the mirror.”