Colorado Democratic senate challenger John Hickenlooper has followed in the footsteps of presidential nominee Joe Biden in refusing to take a position on packing the Supreme Court in the lead up to the Nov. 3 election. “It is time for John [Hickenlooper] to tell Colorado once and for all - will you pack the court?” Gardner tweeted late Monday in response to Hickenlooper’s social media posts condemning the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. “[T]he next president of the United States should have the opportunity to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court,” Gardner wrote in a press release in March of 2016. “Let’s put it this way: I don’t like the idea of court packing. Hickenlooper could not be reached for comment on Biden’s latest proposal to address the rightward shift of the high court.

Source: Fox News October 27, 2020 23:26 UTC