Sam Alito’s warning against requring judges on the High Court sounded a bit nuts…..
The judges on the court ARE Federal employee’s like every other lawyer severing as a Federal judge….
They HAVE rules to follow….
So far those rules have been voluntary….
Seems most of the judges are followinmg the rules…..
But a few Rightleaners are having proiblems with them and the media IS blowing the whistle on them since they threw abortion policy back to the States…..Something a Majority of Americans tell pollsters they are AGAINST….
Alito will get over because Republicans are hapopy with Alito’s tilt on the court and aren’t gonna bother him or Clarence Thomas on this….They’ll just have the media on their case….
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) forcefully pushed back on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s claim that Congress does not have the authority to regulate the judicial branch, calling Alito’s comments “stunningly wrong.”
“It’s just stunningly wrong. And he should know that more than anyone else because his seat on the Supreme Court exists only because of an act passed by Congress,” Murphy said Sunday…
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Senate Democrats passed a bill in committee that would overhaul ethics and transparency requirements for the Supreme Court earlier this month. The legislation, which is seen as having little chance of gaining further traction, comes after a series of reports about luxury trips and gifts justices have accepted over the years — including a ProPublica report on a luxury fishing trip Alito took with a billionaire who later had cases before the high Court.
Murphy slammed Alito’s remarks to the Journal, saying Sunday it is “even more disturbing that Alito feels the need to insert himself into a congressional debate.”
“It’s just more evidence that these justices on the Supreme Court, these conservative justices, just see themselves as politicians. They just see themselves as a second legislative body that has just as much power and weight to impose their political will on the country as Congress does,” Murphy told host Kasie Hunt…..