The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote Thursday on a new ethics code for the Supreme Court, an attempt to respond to recent revelations about justices’ interactions with wealthy donors and others. Republicans are strongly opposed, arguing the ethics bill could “destroy” the high court.
So according to Republicans if the Supreme Court had ethics it would destroy them?
Then they need to be fucking destroyed.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the top Republican on the Judiciary panel, said that if the bill were to ever pass, “the Supreme Court as we know it would be destroyed.”
Wasn’t he the same guy who said that if the GOP nominated Trump, it would destroy the party? He seems to have a fetish for destruction.
I don’t want the Supreme Court to continue existing in it’s current form, do you?
He’s not wrong, he’s just an asshole. 🤣🤣
The Supreme Court needs to be reformed, but simply asking them to conform to the same Ethics guidelines other judges do is hardly destroying it.
He seems to have a fetish for destruction.
Among others, if rumors are to be believed.
Lady G has a reputation among a certain set of young men…
Story goes Lindsey Graham has a lot of fetishes…
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A good first step, but we need more than a code update when they’re ignoring the code as it currently exists. We need an independent non-partisan office that can and will enforce it, and ideally has the capacity to bring criminal charges to justices in violation.
" ignoring the code as it currently exists."
I thought the issue was they aren’t covered under those laws.
Yep, exactly. There’s an ethics code that Roberts recently published that was a rehash of the non-binding ethics standards that both Thomas and Alioto regularly ignored. This is an update to that code with more oversight in the form of additional required disclosures, but (correct me if I’m wrong - please, I want to be wrong here) I’m not seeing anything about enforcement, or anything about the consequences to a justice for violating these new requirements.
Now, watch in amazement as the DNC fails to capitalize on the GOP’s desire to have a SCOTUS with no enforceable ethical standards.
It’s not easy to fuck up ethics rules for the Supreme Court. Watch as the senate tries its best to do so.
Systems created under the best-case-scenario will inevitably fail. The US legislative and executive branches were created under the assumption that all players have the best interest of the people and nation in mind and will act accordingly.
