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Democrat senator Joe Manchin opposes adding justices to the court

© Greg Nash

From TheHill.com….

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) said Sunday he would not support adding justices to the Supreme Court or doing away with the filibuster if Democrats win a Senate majority and the White House.

Manchin, who represents a state easily won by President Trump in 2016, argued that the Senate must continue to work in a bipartisan way.

“I’m not going to vote for anything that would cause, basically, not be able to work in a bipartisan way,” Manchin, likely the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” when asked about expanding the court.

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