'None of them have clean hands': Dems rebuke Alito, SCOTUS over flag controversy [View all]

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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/18/alito-flag-recuse-jan-6-reactions-00158775

Senate 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 don’t deceive you — that’s an election-denying, Big Lie ‘sign of distress’ waving on a Supreme Court justice’s 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.”