{"id":1978837,"date":"2023-07-20T18:21:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T22:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-kennedy-warns-new-judicial-ethics-bill-is-a-court-killing-machine\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T18:22:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T22:22:13","slug":"sen-kennedy-warns-new-judicial-ethics-bill-is-a-court-killing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-kennedy-warns-new-judicial-ethics-bill-is-a-court-killing-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Kennedy cautions against new judicial ethics bill as a &#8216;court-killer&#8217;."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fsen-kennedy-warns-new-judicial-ethics-bill-is-a-court-killing-machine%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=1978837&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--><h2>Sen. John Kennedy Warns Passage\u2062 of Judicial Ethics Bill \u200bWould be &#8220;Dangerous&#8221; and a\u2062 &#8220;Court-Killing \u2064Machine&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) issued \u2062a strong warning to his \u2062colleagues in the Senate, stating that the\u2063 passage of a judicial ethics bill\u2063 would have dire\u200b consequences. His remarks came after \u200dSenate Democrats successfully moved\u2062 the bill out of committee.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200cbill,\u200d which\u200c aims\u200d to establish\u2063 a code of ethics for\u200b the Supreme Court, was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee along\u2062 party lines. If it receives full Senate approval, the bill would\u200d compel\u200c the court to\u200c form a group responsible for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attorney-general-garland-doesnt-commit-to-investigating-alleged-violations-of-jan-6-defendants-civil-rights\/\" title=\"Attorney General Garland Doesn\u2019t Commit to Investigating Alleged Violations of Jan. 6 Defendants\u2019 Civil Rights\">investigating alleged violations<\/a> of the code\u2064 of conduct\u2062 and other laws. It would also enhance transparency when a justice has \u2063a connection to a party involved in a case.<\/p>\n<h3>Illinois \u200bInstagram Settlement: Who&#8217;s Eligible for Payouts in $68.5 \u200cMillion \u2064Lawsuit?<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t\u200c have to be \u2018Oliver Wendell \u2064Scalia\u2019 to figure out that this\u200c legislation is meant to be a \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-kennedy-warns-new-judicial-ethics-bill-is-a-court-killing-machine\/\" title=\"Sen. Kennedy cautions against new judicial ethics bill as a 'court-killer'.\">court-killing machine<\/a>,&#8221;\u200b Kennedy asserted, as reported by \u2062Fox News. &#8220;It would allow any\u2064 jackaloon out \u200cthere in\u200b America, wearing a tinfoil hat and whose own \u2063dog\u200d thinks\u2063 he\u2019s an utter nutter, to file a motion to recuse a United States Supreme Court Justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The proposed law would require Supreme Court\u200c justices to provide explanations \u2062for recusing themselves from a case.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was co-sponsored\u200b by\u2062 Sens.\u200c Sheldon Whitehouse \u2063(D-RI) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) following reports alleging that \u200bSupreme Court justices had accepted lavish \u2062gifts and were profiting from their positions. Durbin has also conducted Judiciary Committee\u200d hearings \u2063on Supreme Court ethics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just advanced\u2063 Supreme\u200c Court \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ethics-experts-alarmed-by-nearly-100-decrease-in-clinton-foundation-donations-since-250-million-peak-in-2009\/\" title=\"Ethics Experts Alarmed By Nearly 100% Decrease In Clinton Foundation Donations Since 0 Million Peak In 2009\u00a0\">ethics reform<\/a> out of the Senate \u2062Judiciary\u2064 Committee,&#8221; Durbin \u2063tweeted on Thursday. &#8220;Chief \u200cJustice\u2063 Roberts failed to\u2063 act on ethics reform \u200dbefore\u2064 adjourning the Supreme Court for \u2064the summer. I said from the \u2062beginning: if\u200c the Court \u200cwon\u2019t act, Congress\u2062 will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill will\u200c now proceed to the Senate, where it will require 60 votes to pass. However, Kennedy cautioned on Wednesday that the bill will be &#8220;dead as a fried \u200dchicken&#8221; if it\u200b reaches the \u2063Senate floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) cautioned Senate colleagues that passing a judicial ethics bill would be perilous, dubbing it a &#8220;court-killing machine.&#8221; This followed Senate Democrats successfully advancing the bill out of committee. The bill mandates the Supreme Court to establish a code of ethics, and it was subsequently approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1978838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}