This statement on Obama's Supreme Court nominee should disqualify Amy Coney Barrett

Amy Coney Barrett, already disqualified but probably on her way to the Supreme Court

This is very likely the Supreme Court nominee that Mitch McConnell will be trying to ram through the Senate in the next five weeks. Here’s Amy Coney Barrett playing pundit and defending McConnell’s decision to block President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, after Justice Scalia’s death. Bad enough, but note the big tell: An Obama nominee would “dramatically flip the balance of power."

Trump #SCOTUS front-runner Amy Coney Barrett, when asked whether Obama should be able to appoint a Supreme Court justice in an election year, said it's inappropriate when it would “dramatically flip the balance of power." pic.twitter.com/loLMaLrsUm

— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) September 23, 2020

So much for those “balls and strikes” of Chief Justice John Roberts, huh? She lays it all out there; it’s a “balance of power.” So much for even respecting the pretense of not prejudging cases. It’s all “us vs. them.” Even Justice Neil Gorsuch, who got that stolen seat, hasn’t played that game. I guess that’s why it’s likely to be Barrett. She’s willing to go there, on the record.