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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'None of them have clean hands': Dems rebuke Alito, SCOTUS over flag controversy
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/18/alito-flag-recuse-jan-6-reactions-00158775Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who has long called for a congressionally enforced code of conduct for the Court, released a statement Friday night calling on Alito to recuse himself from cases relating to Jan. 6 and the 2020 election, reiterating a previous admonishment that the Court is in an ethical crisis of its own making.
In a statement rebuking Alito released on Friday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) echoed calls for congressional guardrails on a runaway Supreme Court. Samuel Alito should apologize immediately for disrespecting the American flag and sympathizing with right-wing violent insurrectionists. He must recuse himself from cases involving the 2020 election and former President Donald Trump, Jeffries wrote. Congress should immediately consider legislation to impose an ethical code of conduct on a runaway Supreme Court. The Constitution demands and the American people deserve more from a justice serving on the highest court in the land than baseless election denial.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) reposted the Times report on X Friday evening, writing: Your eyes dont deceive you thats an election-denying, Big Lie sign of distress waving on a Supreme Court justices lawn before Biden took office. On and off the bench, our Supreme Court is waist-deep in MAGA.
Look at some of the other appointees of Trump too, Nadler said. All three of them, when asked about Roe v. Wade assured the Senate that is settled law, that is settled precedent they all but swore they were not going to overturn it, but of course they did at the first opportunity. So none of them have clean hands.
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'None of them have clean hands': Dems rebuke Alito, SCOTUS over flag controversy (Original Post)
Bundbuster
May 18
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Uncle Joe
(58,934 posts)1. Kicked and recommended
Thanks for the thread Bundbuster.
crickets
(26,060 posts)2. Agreed, but don't just talk about it, fellas. DO IT. nt
onecaliberal
(33,414 posts)3. Stop bringing a butter knife to a tank fights. FFS.
Traurigkeit
(946 posts)5. can recommend a some other tools to bring
NanaCat
(2,332 posts)8. And what would you have him do?
Namely, what would you have him do that has any chance of getting out of committee?
I'll wait.
Torchlight
(3,678 posts)4. Looks as though this conversation might hit critical mass this week or next.
More and more are brining it up and keeping it there. Keeping everyone's attention partially focused on Alito and Thomas, examining their actions, their gifts, thier decisions may seem 'cocerning' to these two flawed judges, but I believe for a huge part of the nation, it's a neccesary dialogue that needs to happen.
meow2u3
(24,829 posts)6. K&R for exposure
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LiberaBlueDem
(975 posts)7. Yes
We need ethics for these unethical judges