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Sen. Cotton Accuses Democrats of ‘Blackmail’ Over Supreme Court Packing Threats

Sen. Cotton Accuses Democrats of ‘Blackmail’ Over Supreme Court Packing Threats
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 19, 2021. Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) accused Democrats of blackmail for threatening to pack the Supreme Court if it upholds a pro-life Mississippi law.

The Arkansas Republican’s single-word tweet consisting of the word “blackmail” came in response to an article in The Hill newspaper that quoted four Democratic U.S. senators vowing to expand the size of the nation’s highest court in order to protect abortion rights, should the court decide to uphold Mississippi’s H.B. 1510, the Gestational Age Act of 2018, which prohibits abortions after 15 weeks’ gestational age except in medical emergencies or for severe fetal abnormality.