{"id":1947927,"date":"2023-06-15T10:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-push-bill-to-regulate-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T10:58:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:58:19","slug":"democrats-push-bill-to-regulate-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-push-bill-to-regulate-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats propose bill to regulate Supreme Court."},"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\">14<\/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%2Fdemocrats-push-bill-to-regulate-supreme-court%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=1947927&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 class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Congress Urged to Impose Code of Conduct on Supreme Court<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Congress must impose a code of conduct on the Supreme Court that requires justices to recuse themselves when there is a financial connection between the justice or the justice\u2019s family and someone having business before the court, a Democrat-controlled congressional oversight committee heard on June 14.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If the Supreme Court won\u2019t act, Congress will, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said at the meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee\u2019s Subcommittee on the Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights.<\/p>\n<p>The subcommittee was reviewing the proposed Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (SCERT) of 2023, S.359, which Whitehouse, its chairman, introduced in February. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) introduced a companion bill, H.R. 926, in the House of Representatives at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Whitehouse\u2019s bill is co-sponsored by 21 senators, including Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hi.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who caucuses with the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Whitehouse is an outspoken critic of the Supreme Court, and in particular, conservative justices such as Clarence Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are outraged that wealthy Republican donor Harlan Crow reportedly gave Thomas luxurious vacations, tuition support for a grandnephew he raised, and purchased a property from the Thomas family. Thomas did not disclose them, saying he was advised it was not required. He has vowed to disclose such events going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats say the gifts in themselves are proof of corruption, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-judge-open-to-claims-abortion-drug-wasnt-properly-vetted-reports\/\" title=\"Texas judge open to claims abortion drug wasn't properly vetted: Reports\">legal experts disagree<\/a>. Legal experts also point out there was no conflict of interest because Crow did not have any business before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whats-next-great-awakening-or-great-reset\/\" title=\"What\u2019s Next? Great Awakening or Great Reset?\">recent congressional hearings<\/a> about Supreme Court ethics have been tense and filled with rancor and accusations, no voices were raised at this gathering.<\/p>\n<p>That may be because no Republican senators spoke at the hearing. At other hearings, Republicans have strenuously objected to Democrats\u2019 efforts to use legislation to regulate the Supreme Court. Republicans argue that the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers prevents Congress from regulating the justices\u2019 behavior. Republicans have suggested that Democrats only want to move against the court because its conservative majority has been rendering decisions they find objectionable.<\/p>\n<p>For example, at a May 2 hearing, former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, told lawmakers that Democrats\u2019 concerns about the ethics of the Supreme Court were self-interested and overblown, The Epoch Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/democrats-say-supreme-court-should-adopt-code-of-conduct-as-republicans-allege-partisan-attack_5235790.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is impossible to escape the conclusion that the public is being asked to hallucinate misconduct so as to undermine the authority of justices who issue rulings with which these critics disagree, and thus to undermine the authority of the rulings themselves,\u201d Mukasey said.<\/p>\n<p>At this hearing, Whitehouse said at a speech two weeks ago that Chief Justice John Roberts \u201cacknowledged the court has more to do, that justices are continuing to look at things they can do to give practical effect to that ethics commitment, and that he\u2019s confident that there are ways to do that, ways to do more,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/chief-justice-roberts-says-the-supreme-court-is-trying-to-address-court-ethics_5286504.html\">referring<\/a> to an address Roberts delivered on May 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBogus personal hospitality, obvious conflicts of interests, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-push-bill-to-regulate-supreme-court\/\" title=\"Democrats propose bill to regulate Supreme Court.\">phony front group anarchy<\/a>. These are all areas ripe for repair,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American people are tired of waiting,\u201d Whitehouse said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA new poll released the same day as the chief justice\u2019s remarks shows that almost 60 percent of Americans disapprove of the way the Supreme Court is doing its job. And that Americans are more likely to think that the justices\u2019 honesty and ethical standards were low or very low. For an institution that depends on the public\u2019s faith to carry out its functions, that is unsettling territory. If the Supreme Court isn\u2019t going to do anything to restore the public\u2019s trust, it\u2019s up to us in Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to know more about front groups that helped appoint Trump\u2019s justices, and then appear as litigants before those same justices,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Whitehouse also took aim at Thomas, who was appointed in 1989 by the late Republican President George H.W. Bush, saying that the justice has refused to recuse himself from cases involving the disputed 2020 election or the e<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Democrat-led congressional oversight committee urged Congress to enforce a code of conduct on the Supreme Court. This code would mandate justices to recuse themselves if they or their family have financial ties to parties involved in cases before the court. 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