Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic-sponsored bill on Wednesday. It would require Supreme Court justices to adopt a binding code of conduct.
“The highest court in the land cannot and should not have the lowest ethical standards,” said Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., in a floor speech before the motion.
The Supreme Court is a separate and equal branch of government. Democrats want to control them and have been at war with them over rulings they disagree with.
As he promised to do one day earlier, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., led a group of GOP senators in blocking the Democratic request.
Graham called the bill an “unconstitutional overreach” that would “undermine the court’s ability to operate effectively.” He was joined by Sens. John Kennedy, R-La., Mike Lee, R-Utah, and others in objecting to passage of the measure.
“I do not think this bill is about ethics. This bill is about abortion,” Kennedy said on the floor Wednesday, accusing Democrats of pushing it because they’re angry the court overruled Roe v. Wade.
THE BINDING CODE OF CONDUCT
The bill would require the high court’s justices to adopt a binding code of conduct. Democrats want to create a mechanism to investigate alleged violations of that code and other laws. The goal requires justices to explain decisions and recuse themselves from cases. Democrats also want to improve disclosure rules when a justice is connected to a party or amicus in a case.
“The Supreme Court has squandered its almost mystical authority, its unique power in the federal government,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said in a floor speech.
Dick Durbin is involved, as usual.
If Democrats don’t get their way, they destroy whatever kept them from getting their way. How will the Supreme Court continue as a separate branch of government with partisan Democrats constantly attacking them and activist Justices demanding rulings based on the feelings of the day?
Democrats want to make the Supreme Court a politicized arm of the Democrat Party. Democrats are a threat to democracy.
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Durban is the handmaiden of Schumer, you can tell by his knees.
If Justice Roberts had any backbone he would tell Dirty Dick and Blumenthal to kiss his @ss.
He wouldn’t dare insult a brave combat veteran like Blumenthal. Why he fought in the WalMart New Year’s Day Massacre.
Bullshit like this is the reason the judiciary is a separate but equal branch of government.
Campaign rhetoric. Do these people actually thing SCOTUS won’t squash that like a bug immediately? Probably 9-0,at that.
The only reason dems want a code of conduct for SCOTUS is hog tie conservative justices. This call for a CofC from a group who also claims separation of powers.
What I find particularly interesting is legislature enacting a law against a group who can over rule any law, rule, etc these nuts enact.