Eric Holder

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The Best People with Nicolle Wallace · Eric Holder: Institutions Have Failed Us, the American People Have Not · 2 Feb 2026 podcast

But there's a use of power that I think we've got to become more comfortable with in the way that, you know, Mitch McConnell

He got power and used it and slept, you know, every night like a baby.

He didn't care what people were saying on the other side.

And we got a Supreme Court now that we have to deal with because of the way in which he used the power that he had to keep Merrick Garland off the court and to get Amy Coney Barrett on the court in ways that are inconsistent with the rule that is supposed to apply.

I don't know.

I don't get this.

You know, I've talked to the caucuses up on the Hill and said, you know, it's not an inappropriate thing to run against this court given all that they have done from, I don't

Citizens United overturning Roe versus Wade, keeping partisan gerrymandering cases out of the federal courts.

There's a whole range of things that they have done to our democracy, the immunity decision for the president.

So, yeah, you run against the court for what it has done.

You run against the court for the way in which it was composed.

And then you have to be prepared to ask some fundamental questions and be unafraid.

If the Democrats hear the words, oh, you're packing the court.

Whoa, oh, oh, can't do that.

Yeah.

Well, Mitch McConnell packed the court.

I understand, you know, we are traditionalists and we are kind of rule followers.

But that doesn't mean, again, with the acquisition and use of power, that we don't put in place institutions that are going to work for us in the 21st century.

The last time that the court was expanded, it was to make sure that there was one justice for each federal circuit.

If you did that now, you would have 13 judges.

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