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Senator Won’t Act on SCOTUS Corruption, So Other Democrats Are Stepping In
by Joan McCarter | June 11, 2024 - 6:21am

— from Daily Kos


Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin is failing at his job of holding the Supreme Court accountable. While he continues issuing stern statements and making floor speeches about Justice Samuel Alito’s recent flag scandals, he isn’t actually doing anything about it. Now other Democrats—like Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland—are stepping up to fill the leadership void.

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Whitehouse will be joined by Raskin and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in discussing Supreme Court corruption during a roundtable discussion on Tuesday.

“The highest court in the land has the lowest ethical standards. This mismatch is producing unequal justice under law in America,” Raskin said. “Behind closed doors, billionaire sugar daddies give Supreme Court justices lavish gifts and push through an extremist agenda against the rights of the people. The whole country is caught in a supreme ethics crisis. Our democracy and our freedom are both in peril.”

The fact that this discussion is happening in a minority roundtable discussion in the House instead of in official hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee is a travesty of Durbin’s making. He is still dragging his heels, even after his polite request to Chief Justice John Roberts to discuss this corruption was met with contempt.

Kudos to these other Democratic lawmakers who are taking action. But what this crisis demands is Senate hearings—now.