Bullock said that if Coney Barrett was confirmed, he would be open to measures to depoliticize the court, including adding judges to the bench, a practice critics have dubbed packing the courts.

This is Olympic level mental gymnastics to obfuscate the point. What a shitshow. I bet this is seeding the narrative for future reporting on court-packing.

Looks like this is the only time they have ever used this term (warning, Google link):

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aapnews.com+%22depoliticize+the+court%22

DuckDuckGo link:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aapnews.com+%22depoliticize+the+court%22&t=h_&ia=web