Mitch McConnell

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell went on MSNBC's Morning Joe Wednesday to really go out on a limb and say that he agrees with Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch that judges shouldn't be attacked.

"I happen to agree with what [Gorsuch] said," McConnell said Wednesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "I mean I think, you know, criticizing members of the judiciary individually is not a good idea."

And then he went on to attack the three individual judges on the 9th Circuit for upholding a nationwide restraining order on Trump's Muslim ban. You know, the case that caused Trump to attack a federal judge leading to Gorsuch's remarks about how he has a sad when that happens?

From the emailed transcript:

SCARBOROUGH: That when the Ninth Circuit, I mean the second I knew it was assigned to the Ninth Circuit-

MCCONNELL: You're absolutely right, Joe.

SCARBOROUGH: I said OK, so we know how they're going to rule.

MCCONNELL: Yeah. […]

SCARBOROUGH: They just acted so shocked.

MCCONNELL: I wouldn't be shocked by anything the Ninth Circuit did.

SCARBOROUGH: Right.

MCCONNELL: I mean we always think of it as a bastion of liberalism and it has been for really a long time. So, no--

SCARBOROUGH: You know, it reflects the people it represents, just like the Eleventh does or the Fifth does.

MCCONNELL: Yeah, yeah. I mean it reflects the views of the people who got appointed. […]

For the record, here's the panel of three judges who continued the stay on the executive order: Judge Richard Clifton, an appointee of George W. Bush; Judge William Canby Jr., an appointee of Jimmy Carter; and Judge Michelle Friedland, an appointee of Barack Obama. They ruled unanimously. That means the Bush appointee, too.