Sen. Kamala Harris weaved a wordy tale but never answered the question about the possibility of Democrats packing the Supreme Court if Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed as a Supreme Court justice.
After avoiding the question multiple times, Vice-President Mike Pence tried to get Harris to answer.
“The American people deserve a straight answer. If you haven't figured it out, they are going to pack the Supreme Court, if they somehow win this election,” Pence said during Wednesday’s debate.
“Let's talk about packing the court then. Let's talk about the fact. I'm about to. So the Trump/Pence administration has been, because I sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Susan, as you mentioned, and I witnessed the appointments for lifetime appointments to the federal courts, district courts, courts of appeal,” Harris said. “People who are purely ideological, people who have been reviewed by legal professional organizations and found to have been not competent, substandard. And do you know that of the 50 people who President Trump appointed to the court of appeals for lifetime appointments, not one is black? This is what they've been doing. You want to talk about packing a court? Let's have that discussion.”
“I just want the record to reflect she never answered the question. The American people -- maybe at the next debate, Joe Biden will answer the question, but I think the American people know the answer,” Pence replied.