The Supreme Court Stonewalls In Defense Of Samuel Alito

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Huffington Post

A lawyer for the Supreme Court dismissed questions about ethics issues at the court in a terse reply to a letter from two top congressional Democrats on Monday.

Supreme Court legal counsel Ethan Torrey replied to the inquiry from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), each in charge of oversight of the courts in their respective chambers.

Link to tweet

The two congressional investigators had pressed Chief Justice John Roberts to answer questions about how the court handles ethical breaches after news reports revealed a pressure campaign by the Christian conservative group Faith & Action that allegedly resulted in Justice Samuel Alito revealing the outcome of his 2014 decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby prior to its release.

Torrey did not answer any of Whitehouse and Johnson’s questions regarding ongoing or potential ethics inquiries into the court’s leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, or into Alito’s alleged leak of the Hobby Lobby outcome. Nor did he say which justices received gifts as part of the religious right pressure campaign.



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[yankee87]

1. SCOTUS is a joke

What a shame SCOTUS is such a cesspool of corruption. On top of everything else, with them wanting to take us back to 1860. Now we find out they are taking bribes.

[czarjak]

2. Because Catholics and Southern Baptists always ultimately come together on religious dogma. Huh?

[bringthePaine]

3. venal shitstain smAlito is emblematic of the fatal decay of the refucKKKchicken cult

[rubbersole]

4. Don't hold back.

[ShazzieB]

5. I tried to read the letter, but it's too darned blurry.

I still have Twitter, so I went there and clicked on the image in the tweet, and it was so blurry, it was like trying to read underwater. Not completely illegible, but so uncomfortable it felt like more trouble than it was worth. I only read a little bit before giving up.

This kind of thing is a pet peeve of mine. If I was willing to struggle that hard to read things, I'd get bargain single vision eyeglasses instead of paying extra for progressive lenses with a reading prescription. *grumble*

Just wondering if I'm the only one who had a problem. I don't understand why people bother posting something like this that's such poor quality. It's a waste of everybody's time.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Surely the legal reasoning was just as blurry

I'm wondering if it's satire of satire

[msfiddlestix]

11. You are NOT alone. I have expensive prescriptions, and my experience is exactly as you describe.

it's not the first time, it is typical in fact.

another reason why I hate twitter postings. why can't a legible copy be posted?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

15. Got your letter right here

But it's still sort of blurry.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/28/supreme-court-alito-2014-ethics-00071024

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23320628-20221128-letter-to-chairman-whitehouse-and-chairman-johnson

[msfiddlestix]

19. ✔️ Ty n/t

[ck4829]

6. K&R.

Stonewalling in defense of Samuel Alito, they say?

[Javaman]

8. the right wing morons yell down from their high tower...

"get off our lawn!!"

[Scalded Nun]

9. Pretty good. Earlier this year they were looking for the staff (or lib judge) leaker to string up

No stone unturned. No cost too great. Gotta find the SCOTUS traitor.

Turns out it is one of them.

Time to circle the wagons.


...and they remain unhappy that the country thinks they are corrupt and without ethical standards.

[Dustlawyer]

10. Congress has oversight authority so this demonstrates how full of themselves SCOTUS is.

I got a tattoo last year of a weeping Lady Justice expressing my feelings on our Justice system today. I have seen a deterioration over the last 32 years. It is heavily impacted by corporate influence and SCOTUS is at the forefront. Citizens United was a really big turning point. Roberts has a lot to answer for.

[FBaggins]

13. Congress's oversight authority is primarily over the executive branch

It’s pretty limited as it applies to the judiciary - particularly the Supreme Court.

“We heard this rumor and have chosen to believe it… so what are you doing to correct it?” really isn’t within the scope of that authority. Or rather… they can ask, but there isn’t much they can do about it when they’re told to buzz off.

[Dustlawyer]

14. Limited sure, but not ineffective. There is still lots that can be done.

Myself, I educate people every day about what I know and what I have seen in our justice system. I am outspoken in a very red area.

[FBaggins]

16. Lots that can be done?

And yet… none of those things appear to be happening.

Sen. Whitehouse is doing all that he really can - which is drawing attention to the accusation and extending the news cycle. I doubt that he expected an actual answer to his questions.

[LaMouffette]

12. They've gone rogue. Just like Traitor Trump, the radical rightwing justices believe they are above

the law and immune from any kind of regulation or oversight.

[Bayard]

17. I'm still trying to get past the revelation

That the Supremes have a lawyer.

[BlueIdaho]

18. Robert's Kangaroo Court adopts a very Trumpian tone.

It’s time to end the imperial court - without accountability we are better off without it.

[republianmushroom]

20. What ethics (?) this supreme court hasn't had any for some time.

5 member have lied their asses off

[live love laugh]

21. RW SCOTUS lawyered up ⁉️

[FBaggins]

23. The court created the position in the early 1970's

Nothin new

[riversedge]

22. MY guess is that Sen Sheldon Whitehouse will continue with his questiong. I trust him anyday.

[FBaggins]

24. He will

But it isn’t likely that the answers will change much