Republican senators came out against Democrats’ push to impose a code of ethics on the Supreme Court during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
accepting trips and selling real estate to GOP megadonor Harlan Crow without disclosing it—which was held with legal experts after Chief Justice John Roberts declined the committee’s invitation to testify.
Ranking Member Sen. Lindsey Graham said while he wasn’t opposed to greater transparency on the Supreme Court and a discussion of ethics reforms, he “think[s] this moment when we could find common ground has been hijacked,” saying Democrats’ push for an ethics code is “an unseemly effort by the Democratic left to destroy the legitimacy of the Roberts court.
Sen. John Kennedy , the ranking member on the courts subcommittee, downplayed Thomas’ failure to disclose his transactions with Crow, saying “history is littered with public officials who failed to disclose every transaction,” and noted liberal justices have amended their disclosures in the past without “buckets of mud” being thrown at them.
“The danger isn’t that rogue justices are operating without ethics, it is that Democrats aren’t winning every fight and they find that intolerable,” Kennedy said, arguing Democrats who are unhappy with the conservative-leaning court’s rulings should “fill out a hurt feelings report and move on.” Sen. Chuck Grassley , said that he supported more oversight over the court, but Democrats “have engaged in a crusade to … smear the courts,” decrying the hearing as “political theater,” and Sen. Mike Lee accused Democrats of a “thuggish shakedown” of the Supreme Court and praised Thomas as “one of our greatest American success stories.”“I’m just saying there’s a very selective outrage here,” Graham said about Democrats’ complaints about conservative justices.
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