Posted on 06/04/2024 3:42:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A group of House Democrats are pushing to create an investigative office within the Supreme Court to probe the justices and any purported conflicts of interest.
A group of House Democrats are pushing to create an investigative office within the Supreme Court to probe the justices and any purported conflicts of interest.
The legislation, titled the Supreme Court Ethics and Investigations Act, also offers ethics training for the justices and their spouses.
“We know the issue of court reform is fundamental to saving our democracy,” Rep. Hank Johnson, Georgia Democrat, said of the bill he co-sponsored and introduced Tuesday.
He was joined on the steps of the Supreme Court on Tuesday by other Democratic lawmakers and progressive advocacy groups supporting the act.
Rep. Jerry Nadler, New York Democrat, also joined in support of the legislation, calling out two justices by name — Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas, who have refused to recuse themselves from cases where liberals say they have conflicts of interest related to the Jan. 6 riots.
He said Justice Alito flew flags that symbolized the “Stop the Steal” movement and that Justice Thomas’ wife participated in the movement. Virginia Thomas was at the initial Jan. 6 rally but not at the riot that occurred when part of the group then marched on the U.S. Capitol.
Mr. Nadler said that despite the high court adopting its own ethics code last year, there is no enforcement mechanism for investigating ethics concerns lobbed at the justices, who judge their own recusal requests.
The legislation would create an investigative body within the Supreme Court that would report back to Congress on its findings.
The bill comes after Democrats have recently called for Justice Alito to recuse himself from cases related to the Capitol riot over an upside-down American...
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Separation of powers = checkmate
Dems have no regard for the constitution. I doubt any of them have ever read it.
How many times must this be YELLED at these Demoncrats, it is a SEPERATE and CO-EQUAL branch of Government!
IMPEACH EARL WARREN!
The liberals didn’t like that kind of talk; that I can tell you.
But won’t pass a bill on insider trading lol.
What part of "Separate but equal" do they not understand?
God if only our party was this relentless going after their enemies. They’re not attacking conservatives just to keep us subdued and quiet. They wanna snuff us out! Look at the way they’re going after the lawyers that defend Trump! America better wake up because if we don’t win in 2024 America is dead. The nation is kaput. We cannot take four more years of FJB and his demon horde DC Stalin Evil nazi brown shirt cabal! WE MUST WIN! WE MUST!!!!!!
How about House creates ethics body for Senate???
Apparently the Dims don’t know this.
Congress has NDAs and pays off accusers, and it’s all secret.
We need Ethics in Congress.
Marry your brother all day long, no problem. Maxine Watters sprays her family with money.
They don’t quit. That’s the job of Republicans.
Those idiots already posses a certain degree of oversight. But the constitutional space given them is never enough.
November needs to be an election slaughter.
Yes, Ludicrous but all the same they usually get 95% of their way come hell or high water they get their way one way or the other! Aren’t your eyes wide opened yet? They have gotten everything they have set their minds on. Destruction of America they’re almost there, Open borders they got that, convict Trump they got that scared the hell out of conservatives lawyers they got that …J6 insurrection hoax prisoners they got, stole an election, they got that too. They have gotten everything. AND WHAT have we gotten? Jack squat..zero zilch … but spineless Republicans at the hill who write very strong worded letters to the evil rats. Telling you the rats are shaking in their boots ….what a bunch of jackass jokers!
Um...how about...Mo!
These a&&clowns can’t even spell ‘separation of powers’...
We are NOT in a good place, currently, in this Nation.
It’s all about Power with the Dems, they don’t really care about limiting government power via separation of powers.
The left - always with the "special counsel" / "special prosecutor" . . . to decide and declare the left-wing-nut "narrative" of the intent of what an actor (conservative, Judeo-Chrisitian, Republican, military, mother, father, pastor, etc.) believes, prays, says, thinks, writes.
Guess who can deem it unconstitutional.
Not long ago Biden said being upset about the result of a trial doesn’t mean you should criticize the fair, decent, honestly applied system of laws in the courts decided by everyday citizens on a fair jury.
But the hypocritical Dems want to intimidate and scare the justices into ruling the Dems’ favored way.
If they don’t they will be attacked and persecuted with a probable frame job against them or their spouses.
They, like Franklin D. Roosevelt, want to “pack the Court” with friendly leftists.
That would undermine one of the 3 branches of government.
It’s (d)ifferent.
They have the power of the purse and impeachment. Otherwise, tell them to pound sand.
We know perfectly well that would be abused by democrats.
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