Senate GOP stages hearing walkout to protest Supreme Court-related subpoenas

[BaronChocula]

Source: The Hill

Tempers exploded at a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Thursday before Democrats voted to subpoena a major conservative donor and a prominent conservative activist linked to the Supreme Court’s ethics scandals.

The Republican members of the committee stormed out of the hearing room in the Hart Building shortly before Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) called a vote on authorizing the subpoenas.

The meeting came after weeks of partisan fighting among members of the Judiciary Committee over plans to subpoena conservative donor Harlan Crow and activist Leonard Leo, the co-chairman of the Federalist Society, in response to reporting by ProPublica that revealed the two men played roles in taking conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito on luxury vacations.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4335581-senate-gop-stages-hearing-walkout-to-protest-supreme-court-related-subpoenas/

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Magas circling the wagons to preserve corruption of the Old White American Order.

[Mr.Bill]

1. They were probably disappointed

there were no dick pictures shown at the hearing. The republicans are known to like those.

[bluestarone]

2. Yea no surprise here.

Gotta protect their bankrolled BILLIONAIRE friends

[PortTack]

3. This!!

[usonian]

4. Lock the doors and change the combinations.

NOW.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. haha

[AllaN01Bear]

5. a nerve got hit. well whah. snork

[SalamanderSleeps]

7. Lindsey "I think I'm going to Cry" Graham and his Murderer's Row of chickenshits make a valiant stab at drama.

Chuck Grassley - IA

John Cornyn - TX

Mike Lee - UT

Ted Cruz - TX

Josh Hawley - MO

Tom Cotton - AR

John Kennedy - LA

Thom Tillis - NC

Marsha Blackburn - TN


It's like they never left high school.

[KS Toronado]

16. I'm thinking more like kindergartners

[Evolve Dammit]

17. "It's like they never left high school." Middle School is more likely....

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. Look, let's be reasonable.

If we let a few decent congresspeople investigate this, they will find out just how much ALL RETHUG OFFICIALS do it, and then there will be recalls and impeachments due to not actually doing the job they were sent up there to do, and fines... who wants that??

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

21. There won't be impeachments

The Rs control the House, where impeachment happens, and they will not vote for it.

Without that, the Senate can't act to convict. Even if an impeachment somehow cleared the House, the Senate doesn't have the votes to boot out the criminal 6 on the USSC.

[calimary]

9. Oh FUCK 'em.

[DemocraticPatriot]

10. Like cockroaches scurrying away when you shine the lights on them....

[NBachers]

11. Get lost, losers

[summer_in_TX]

12. So was there a quorum?

The Republican members of the committee stormed out of the hearing room in the Hart Building shortly before Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) called a vote on authorizing the subpoenas.

Or did their little maneuver succeed in derailing the subpoenas?

[ancianita]

14. Arguable. But some rule allowed them to authorize Durbin to issue the subpoenas. .

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-ethics-subpoenas-leonard-leo-harlan-crow_n_6568c13ce4b07b937ff3ef28

[Angleae]

25. They had a quorum to start the hearing. Them walking out could be construed as not voting.

[onecaliberal]

13. They know they're about to be exposed in every way, shape, form and fashion.

They are corrupt from stem to stern. They are criminals, and they are not there to serve the public. They are in gross violation of their oath.

[peppertree]

15. The same thing's happening in Argentina, as synchronicity would have it - and for the same reasons

The country's four Supreme Court justices - down to that number because the RW opposition has blocked the replacement of the missing fifth one by the current center-left president - all have serious corruption cases against them in their home towns (stalled, of course).

Moreover, and among other things, they've been taking to invalidating longstanding congressionally-passed laws - replacing them with the very laws these bills replaced, covering for federal judges that were never confirmed (while forcing others who were, out), and even determining revenue-sharing percentages (like in the U.S., a strictly congressional prerogative).

So naturally, during the ongoing impeachment hearings the RW'ers walked out of the committee room - some kicking chairs and yelling profanities.

Why? Because the Supreme Court was always their end-run around any legislation they didn't like - as well as the one guarantee that their archenemy, Vice President Cristina Kirchner, could be railroaded no matter what.

"No evidence - but no doubt," as the latest ruling against her put it.

Suffice it to say, Trump reportedly expressed admiration for Argentina's discredited judiciary in his recent meetings with this kleptocrat pal Macri.

You can just hear him: "I wish we could have that here, Mauricio - that, I can tell you."

[Evolve Dammit]

18. He wants to be a dicktator and retribution Pres for life in the worst way. Buckle up. nt

[peppertree]

20. Exactamundo. He likes palling with 3rd world authoritarians like Macri, because that's his model of governance

Including, as you can imagine, widespread eavesdropping against friends and foes alike - which got Macri indicted but then acquitted, thanks to his "napkin" judges.

And that's a cornerstone of Trumpian governance: napkin judges like Aileen, who'll rubber-stamp anything.

In return for a little $omething, of course.

[Evolve Dammit]

22. Indeed. SCOTUS in their current makeup is pretty f'ing scary. They will determine our direction,

legally speaking.

[mahina]

32. How interesting. How did you learn all this?

Are there any sites you would recommend for further reading on this?

Who do you suppose is running this show?

[The Bopper]

19. Jealous I'm guessing

Probably pissed off they aren’t in on the gravy train.

[Hotler]

23. After watching that video Durbin looked out-of-it or in a fog. Does he have memory problems? nt

[republianmushroom]

24. Oh, those poor snowflakes.

They don't seem to mine an unethical supreme court.

[LudwigPastorius]

26. Incoming House subpoena for George Soros in...

3..2..1..

Just out of spite

[The Wizard]

27. Their naked aggression

against the rule of law should be shouted from the mountaintops .

[bucolic_frolic]

28. That's theater to protect GOP donors and look at how hard we tried to keep you secret

[sarchasm]

29. Giant snowflake size right up there with refusing to let Hunter testify. -nt

[nwduke]

30. They have to emulate

their lying conman messiah, Donnie, and protect corrupt Supreme Court Judges who are bankrolled by a couple of greedy billionaire's looking for more money because a billion just isn’t enough!🤬

[LetMyPeopleVote]

31. Statement from Texas Democratic Party

Link to tweet

[tonekat]

33. Were they chanting?

Don't disdain our Gravy Train
Don't you block our Gravy Train
We have so much more to gain
Gravy Train! Gravy Train!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

34. "This is an outrageous attempt to target private citizens without any legitimate legislative purpose," Cornyn

told reporters after the meeting. "If you can go after a private citizen … for a non-legislative prupose, you essentially can target for political reasons any American citizen at any time in the future. And that is a dangerous, dangerous place to go."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/john-cornyn-ted-cruz-flee-175731523.html

Ahem "Hunter Biden"