In a tired reversal of position, Republicans are attacking President Joe Biden s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson , over the support her nomination has received from Demand Justice, a liberal nonprofit group that does not disclose its donors.

The attacks echo those previously brought by Democrats against President Donald Trump s three Supreme Court nominees. Democrats argued that Trump had outsourced his judicial selections to the conservative Federalist Society. Once they were selected, a dark money group operating one door down from the Federalist Society spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising to boost the chosen nominees.

Republicans claimed there was nothing wrong with Trump letting representatives from an outside group run his judicial selection process, or with a dark money group spending funds to support the eventual nominees. Now, they have taken the hypocritical and cynical approach of loudly crying foul.

Jacksons nomination raises the troubling role that far-left dark money groups like Demand Justice have played in this administrations judicial selection process, Senate Judiciary Committee ranking Republican Chuck Grassley (Iowa) said on Monday.

Republicans frame their dark money attacks around Demand Justices support for adding four seats to the Supreme Court, a proposal sometimes called court-packing.

Court-packing amounts to an attack on the independence of the judiciary, Grassley said.