Lindsey Graham: Senate colleagues trying to 'destroy' conservative Supreme Court justices with ethics reform

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday lamented his Senate colleagues’ push for more oversight of the Supreme Court, arguing they are attempting to “micromanage” the nation’s high court.

“The worst thing that happened is for the United States Senate and the House to determine what cases the Supreme Court hears,” Graham said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Graham, the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other GOP senators blocked a bill earlier this month that would require the Supreme Court to adopt a code of conduct and create a mechanism to enforce it amid several high-profile controversies.

“They’re trying to micromanage the [Supreme Court Chief Justice John] ‘Roberts court.’ They’re trying to destroy [Supreme Court Justices Samuel] Alito and [Clarence] Thomas because they don’t like the fact of conservative judges,” Graham said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/graham-senate-colleagues-trying-destroy-143040826.html

Oh STFU Linsdey.

[Think. Again.]

1. Because destruction by ethics is a bad thing?

[Model35mech]

3. There's an awfully lot of that "rationalize everything" among partisan loyalists

Lindsey also cherry-picked the description of the perpetrators

He called them conservative justices, I'd call them radical Christian Nationalist Justices, who place what they misname as "God's Law" over U.S. Constitutional Law. They just happen to be conservative because it's the conservative Justices who are in bed with the Catholic Integralists and Fundy Christian Nationalists.

[Think. Again.]

6. Yeah, that's why I just lump all bad people together as rightwingers.

No need for all the psuedo-descriptive labels they make up for themselves, they're rightwingers, period.

[MagickMuffin]

2. Well perhaps if the Supreme Court wasn't corrupt

we wouldn’t need this oversight.

But they are corrupt and when they get caught being corrupt they start the victimization of their behavior by gaslighting reality.

[sop]

4. Lindsey's been making less and less sense as he's gotten on in years, sort of like Strom Thurmond at the end.

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There's something peculiar about U.S. Senators from South Carolina; the longer they're in office, the nuttier they become.

[Kingofalldems]

5. He speaks out of fear, compromised in some way.

I pay not attention to him.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Destroying people by making them follow the law?

The only people destroyed are criminals.

Called rule of law.

[Disaffected]

8. Li'l Lindsey is hard to figure.

Heard him on C-SPAN today talking about a bill to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism,

https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases

(co-sponsored by R Blumenthal) and he sounded a serious and reasonable person. OTOH, he's a Trump suck-up and rabid RWer in many other ways.

[Talitha]

9. Oh Lindsey, you're such an ass. Go lay down on your fainting couch.

[Blue Owl]

12. Lawd have mercy!

[patphil]

10. Lindsey Graham says the stupidest stuff.

Every other judge in every other Federal Court has an established code of ethics to both guide the judges, and prevent the kind of egregious disregard for ethical behavior that we are seeing on the Supreme Court.

But Lindsey thinks that's dumb.
Since when does ethical behavior fall into the category of micromanagement?
Oh! That's right, these are Republican judges, They are above/outside the law. Requiring a code of ethics is for the other guys.
I get it.
Jeez, Lindsey, could you ever be bigger asshole than you are now.
Note: I just heard him say, "hold my beer".

[ProudMNDemocrat]

11. Oh Lindsey, you stupid fuck!

Your colleagues in the Senate are trying to make sure accountability and ethics rule the Court, not their political and religious feelings.

You of all people should know that!

[LowerManhattanite]

13. "Gasp!" and "Swoon!"...

…rinse and repeat.