{"id":1413932,"date":"2022-03-31T20:14:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T00:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1413932"},"modified":"2022-03-31T20:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T00:14:40","slug":"clumsy-bullying-mcconnell-slams-left-wing-impeachment-addiction-over-clarence-thomas-pressure-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clumsy-bullying-mcconnell-slams-left-wing-impeachment-addiction-over-clarence-thomas-pressure-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Clumsy Bullying\u2019: McConnell Slams Left-Wing \u2018Impeachment Addiction\u2019 Over Clarence Thomas Pressure Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclumsy-bullying-mcconnell-slams-left-wing-impeachment-addiction-over-clarence-thomas-pressure-campaign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1413932&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/63333FEE-1CC4-4F60-A140-FB2F68AECEB7-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) defended Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from a barrage of progressive calls for him to be impeached because of his wife\u2019s communications with Trump administration officials on the day of the January 6 Capitol riot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudicial independence is essential to our Republic,\u201d McConnell said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=01nj7pXSLFc\">remarks<\/a> on the Senate floor Wednesday. \u201cIt\u2019s integral to the rule of law. And for the most part, since the Democratic Party\u2019s last run at partisan court-packing in the 1930s, both parties have respected it. But lately, Washington Democrats have gone off the rails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell then cited three occasions in the last three years where another branch of government had tried to put its thumb on the scale of the Court. \u201cIn 2019, Democratic Senators tried to openly bully the Supreme Court into a certain outcome. They wrote a threatening amicus brief saying the Court had better, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/senate-dems-deliver-stunning-warning-to-supreme-court-heal-or-face-restructuring\">heal itself<\/a>,&#8217;\u201d McConnell said, referring to a brief filed in the 2019 case <em>New York State Rifle &#038; Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, New York. <\/em>\u201cIn 2020, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/03\/04\/chuck-schumer-justices-kavanaugh-gorusch-you-will-pay-price\/\">Democratic Leader himself<\/a> stood on the steps of the Supreme Court and threatened multiple sitting Justices by name if they didn\u2019t reach the policy outcome that liberals wanted. In 2021, President Biden assisted the delegitimizing campaign by constructing a pseudo-academic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-political-power-grab-biden-creates-commission-to-study-packing-the-supreme-court\">commission<\/a> to ponder ideas like partisan court-packing and unconstitutional term limits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd now, in the last few days, the latest chapter. The left\u2019s quest to delegitimize the Supreme Court found its latest outlet,\u201d McConnell continued. \u201cThis time, it\u2019s a coordinated effort to nullify the presence of Justice Clarence Thomas on the Court. The far left wants another crack at what they tried and failed to do in 1991. Washington Democrats are now trying to bully this exemplary judge of 30-plus years out of entire legal subjects, or off the Court entirely. Far-left House members are talking about dusting off their party\u2019s impeachment addiction for a third consecutive year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake no mistake: this performative outrage is not in earnest. This is a political hit, part of liberals\u2019 years-long quest to delegitimize the Court,\u201d McConnell said, adding that leftists have issued similar demands for the late Justice Antonin Scalia, as well as Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, to recuse themselves from certain cases. \u201cAll because our laws and Constitution occasionally inconvenience Democrats\u2019 radical agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConnell then defended Thomas from the left-wing attacks. \u201cJustice Clarence Thomas is a great American and an outstanding Justice,\u201d he said. \u201cHe is faithful to the text of our laws and Constitution. His writing is clear. His reasoning is rigorous and transparent. I have total confidence in Justice Thomas\u2019s impartiality in every aspect of the work of the Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll nine Justices deserve total independence as they approach every judicial decision they make,\u201d McConnell concluded. \u201cThis clumsy bullying from the political branches is beyond the pale. Justice Thomas is an exemplary jurist who has modeled fidelity to the rule of law for more than 30 years and counting. I hope none of the Justices give any of the radical left\u2019s various pressure campaigns a minute\u2019s thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Progressive members of Congress have mounted a concerted effort to impeach Thomas or force him to recuse himself from cases related to January 6 after reports surfaced that his wife, Ginni, was in communication with Trump administration officials, urging them to contest the 2020 election. Far-left Congresswoman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/aoc-leads-progressive-calls-to-investigate-justice-clarence-thomas-after-wifes-texts-revealed\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>\u00a0(D-NY) pushed for Thomas\u2019 impeachment in a long Twitter thread Tuesday, and both Senate Majority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c5008472\/senator-schumer-justice-thomas-recuse-jan-6-cases\">Chuck Schumer<\/a>\u00a0(D-NY) and Judiciary Committee Chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/600066-judiciary-committee-chair-calls-on-justice-thomas-to-recuse-himself-from-jan\/\">Dick Durbin<\/a>\u00a0(D-IL) have said that Thomas should recuse himself from January 6 cases.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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