{"id":1989199,"date":"2023-08-02T20:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T00:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-senate-democrat-slams-samuel-alito-for-saying-congress-cant-regulate-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2023-08-02T20:21:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T00:21:14","slug":"top-senate-democrat-slams-samuel-alito-for-saying-congress-cant-regulate-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-senate-democrat-slams-samuel-alito-for-saying-congress-cant-regulate-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrat criticizes Alito&#8217;s claim that Congress lacks power 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\">26<\/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%2Ftop-senate-democrat-slams-samuel-alito-for-saying-congress-cant-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=1989199&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. Dick Durbin \u2063Condemns Justice Alito&#8217;s Argument \u2063on Congressional Authority<\/h2>\n<p>Sen. Dick Durbin\u2063 (D-IL) strongly \u2063criticized Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito&#8217;s recent remarks regarding Congress&#8217; authority over the Supreme Court. This\u2064 comes as Senate \u2062Democrats are \u200dpushing \u200bfor ethics rules to be \u2063imposed on the court.<\/p>\n<p>Durbin&#8217;s condemnation of Alito came after\u2064 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-and-biden-white-house-reportedly-had-understanding-to-stay-quiet-on-classified-docs-finds\/\" title=\"DOJ and Biden White House Reportedly Had Understanding to Stay Quiet on Classified Docs Finds\">justice gave<\/a> an\u200d interview to the \u200cWall Street \u2063Journal. The senator expressed his disapproval of Alito&#8217;s comments on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-ethics-reform-bill-moving-forward-top-senate-democrat-says\/\" title=\"Senate Democrat: Supreme Court Ethics Reform Bill Advancing\">ethics reform bill<\/a>, \u2063emphasizing that\u2062 Alito is not a member of \u200dthe United States Senate.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Now, Justice\u2063 Alito is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-senate-democrat-slams-samuel-alito-for-saying-congress-cant-regulate-supreme-court\/\" title=\"Senate Democrat criticizes Alito's claim that Congress lacks power to regulate Supreme Court.\">providing speculative public commentary<\/a> on a bill that is still going through the legislative process. Let&#8217;s\u200d be clear: Justice Alito is\u200b not the \u2062101st member of the United States \u200bSenate,&#8221; \u2064Durbin said. &#8220;His intervention\u2062 in Article \u200cI activity is unwise \u200dand \u200dunwelcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As the chairman of \u200cthe Senate Judiciary \u200cCommittee, Durbin played a key role\u200d in advancing a Supreme Court\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-to-increase-number-of-felons-voting-in-u-s-elections\/\" title=\"Biden admin. to increase number of felons voting in U.S. elections\">ethics bill<\/a> last month. \u200bThe bill \u2064aims to establish a new code of conduct for\u200c justices and\u200b create a transparent process for submitting ethics complaints against court \u200bmembers. It also requires justices and law clerks to disclose gifts, travel, \u2064and income, similar \u200dto members of \u2062Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Alito recently found\u2063 himself defending his actions after accusations arose that he failed\u2064 to disclose a vacation he took\u2062 with GOP megadonor Paul Singer. Justice Clarence\u200c Thomas \u2064faced a similar accusation earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>In his interview, Alito asserted that Congress does not have the authority \u2064to \u200bregulate the Supreme\u2064 Court, prompting Durbin to respond this week.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I know this is \u200ba \u2063controversial view, but I&#8217;m willing to say it,&#8221; Alito stated. \u200d&#8221;No provision in\u2064 the\u200d Constitution gives them\u2064 the authority to regulate\u200c the Supreme Court \u2014 period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Durbin and other Senate Democrats are \u2063determined\u200d to continue \u2063pushing for the ethics bill when they return\u200d from their August recess, with the \u2062Senate reconvening on Sept. 5.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click\u200b here<\/a> to read \u2064more\u2064 from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nashville-official-facing-ethics-complaint-after-citing-religious-beliefs-in-opposition-to-sex-change-surgeries\/\" title=\"Nashville official faces ethics complaint for opposing sex change surgeries based on religious beliefs.\">ethical \u200dconduct<\/a> of\u2064 Supreme \u2063Court Justices is \u200ca serious matter within this Committee&#8217;s jurisdiction. Ensuring ethical conduct by the justices is critical to\u2064 the Court&#8217;s legitimacy,&#8221; Durbin emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The next time Justice Alito thinks about taking a private plane \u2063to \u2062a billionaire-funded fishing trip,&#8221; he\u2063 added, &#8220;he\u2064 should\u200c have to ask more than &#8216;Can I take this empty seat?&#8217; He should have to ask if doing so is \u200dconsistent with his legally-mandated ethical obligations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) criticized Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito&#8217;s claim that Congress lacks authority over the court. Durbin&#8217;s condemnation came in response to Alito&#8217;s interview with the Wall Street Journal. Senate Democrats aim to enforce ethics rules on the court, and Durbin called out Alito for his remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1989200,"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-1989199","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\/1989199","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=1989199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1989200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}