Posted on 08/05/2023 12:36:16 PM PDT by lowbridge
Ten Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, led by chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), implored Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in a letter Thursday to ensure Justice Samuel Alito will recuse himself from future cases pertaining to legislation regulating the high court.
The senators’ request hinged on an interview Alito gave to the Wall Street Journal last week, where he opined that the U.S. Constitution does not give Congress the authority to regulate the Court, “period.”
“Congress did not create the Supreme Court,” Alito said of efforts to legislate ethics regulations. “I know this is a controversial view, but I’m willing to say it.”
The Democratic senators — all of the Judiciary Committee’s majority members except Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) — rebuffed Alito’s perspective as “plainly incorrect” and raised concern that he “publicly prejudged” the issues, which could land before the Court.
They referred back to testimony Alito gave during his 2006 confirmation hearing, where he said he “wouldn’t want to prejudge any constitutional question that might be presented to me.”
“And yet, we now have Justice Alito publicly remarking on the constitutionality of pending legislation — comments that unquestionably engender doubt that he could fairly discharge his duties should this question come before the Court,” the senators wrote.
The request for Roberts to take “appropriate steps” to ensure Alito recuses himself on any cases related to Court regulation comes amid increased scrutiny of the Supreme Court justices’ ethics.
“Since 2011, you have argued that the Supreme Court can police its own ethical conduct,” the senators wrote to Roberts. “Yet, this year has been marked by revelation after revelation of justices receiving lavish gifts that they failed to disclose as required by law or otherwise using their offices and taxpayer-funded resources for personal gain.”
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To hell with them. No recusals until the Jamaican and Non-Native American Indian are recused from being Stalin and Lenin heroes by JSixing an American president. They shouldn’t even be allowed to be “judges”. Did we run out of friggin’ Americans or something?
Perhaps these wizards of smart who signed the letter could share with the class the Article and Section of the Constitution that gives Congress the authority to regulate the Supreme Court.
This is as likely to go nowhere as when conservative senators asked Roberts to force recusal over Kagan hearing cases that were actually disputed by her when she was Solicitor General under Obama.
She actually wrote briefs that she later got to rule on.
Alito just expressed his thinking on how he sees the Constitution that they don’t like. You know, like first amendment freedom of speech...
Give me an f’n break!
The Hill has become The Village Voice.
3 Branches of Federal GOVERNMENT
Meant to be separate & distinctive.
Durbin & his Horse hocky pals are wrong. THEY are out of line.
IF they DO-—THEY ARE DOING A PISS POOR JOB OF IT.
I wouldn’t trust Kagan to read HOA rules correctly.
Alito to Democrats: GFYS.
Make any rulings by the lesbians and one pedifile at SCOTUS null and void on gender cases.
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