On Thursday, NBC’s Today show and ABC’s Good Morning America actually tried to justify the radical plan by Democrats to pack the Supreme Court, citing far-left “fury” over “conservative” justices appointed to the high court in recent years. The absurd partisan talking point that the move was needed to “restore the balance of the Supreme Court” was even parroted in the coverage.
While the Today show did label the effort by Democrats to be “highly controversial” and something that would spark a “political firestorm,” correspondent Kasie Hunt ultimately framed the power-grabbing scheme this way: