Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic-sponsored bill on Wednesday. It would require Supreme Court justices to adopt a binding code of conduct.
“The highest court in the land cannot and should not have the lowest ethical standards,” said Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., in a floor speech before the motion.
The Supreme Court is a separate and equal branch of government. Democrats want to control them and have been at war with them over rulings they disagree with.
As he promised to do one day earlier, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., led a group of GOP senators in blocking the Democratic request.Graham called the bill an “unconstitutional overreach” that would “undermine the court’s ability to operate effectively.” He was joined by Sens. John Kennedy, R-La., Mike Lee, R-Utah, and others in objecting to passage of the measure.“I do not think this bill is about ethics. This bill is about abortion,” Kennedy said on […]
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