Associated Press busy creating Newspeak

“Court packing” is now “depoliticizing” the Supreme Court.

[Senate candidate Steve] “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.”

On September 30, the AP Style Guide for reporters and editors urged agains the word “riot”. This wouldn’t matter, except that almost every local newspaper in the country uses AP feeds to inform their readers, so what’s hatched up in Washington enters the national “dialogue”.