Posted on 06/12/2024 2:38:51 AM PDT by Libloather
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Tuesday said they will be introducing legislation in response to the increased ethics concerns related to the Supreme Court.
Ocasio-Cortez and Raskin, who serve as the ranking and vice-ranking members, respectively, on the House Oversight Committee, were part of a committee roundtable Tuesday regarding these concerns. They explored various “avenues” for holding Supreme Court justices accountable, they told MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes.
“And so, it is not a question…of if Congress has jurisdiction and power over the Supreme Court. It is, what power are we going to exercise in order to rein in a fundamentally unaccountable and rogue court?” Ocasio-Cortez said Tuesday night.
“Congressman Raskin and myself will be introducing forthcoming legislation to even have the Supreme Court be subject to the same $50 gift rule that he and I are subject to, as everyone else who are members of Congress,” she added later.
The Supreme Court has come under scrutiny over the past year following a series of reports detailing various undisclosed luxury trips, gifts, and questionable extrajudicial activities involving multiple justices. The reports spiked interest in congressional oversight of the justices’ behavior and the gifts they accept.
Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats have repeatedly pushed for legislation to increase oversight of the Supreme Court. This pressure increased last month after reports surfaced about a pair of flags flown over Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s homes, including an upside-down American flag over his Alexandria, Va. residence in the days surrounding Jan. 6, 2021, and President Biden’s inauguration.
“It’s the highest court in the land with the lowest ethical standards. These are the only governmental officials in the land who are not governed by a binding ethics code. There’s no process by which we can hold any of them accountable,” Raskin said.
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More like “whatever the Dems control ought to rule” is their motto. They’re very flexible on the details as long as in the end they get their way.
E.g. jail Dexter Taylor for 3D printing firearms parts, but suddenly there’s a 2A in their mind when Hunter is convicted.
Constitutionally, Congress has absolutely no power to make laws regarding the USSC. Raskin & AOC can go soil their hats and pull them down over their ears
the hilarious thing about these fools is that any legislation they might manage to pass that tries to interfere with SCOTUS can simply be declared as unconstitutional by SCOTUS, and there’s not a damn thing they can do about it short of a successful impeachment ... i assume they must know this and are simply grandstanding, either that or they are truly stupid ...
AKA, Reeeeeeeeeee they are finding too many unconstitutional laws unconstitutional.
A communist and a dipshit walked into a congress...
The leftists loath that the Court is going back to upholding the Constitution and the letter of the law. They had no problems with earlier activist Courts crapping on the Constitution and legislating from the bench though of course.
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