{"id":2254106,"date":"2024-05-28T08:02:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-promise-coordinated-assault-on-court-if-they-dont-get-their-way\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T08:06:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:06:01","slug":"democrats-promise-coordinated-assault-on-court-if-they-dont-get-their-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-promise-coordinated-assault-on-court-if-they-dont-get-their-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Vow Organized Attack on Court if Their Terms Aren&#8217;t Met"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fdemocrats-promise-coordinated-assault-on-court-if-they-dont-get-their-way%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=2254106&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--><p>Democrats, especially members such as Rep. Jamie Raskin, are \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-will-be-gone-soon-iranian-official-says\/\" title=\"Iranian official predicts Israel's imminent demise.\">growing increasingly anxious<\/a> over the possibility \u2062of the\u200b Supreme Court\u2063 undermining their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-sidney-powell-releases-statement-to-we-the-people-on-her-trump-election-legal-efforts-it-will-be-epic\/\" title=\"New: Sidney Powell Releases Statement to \"We the People\" on Her Trump Election Legal Efforts (\"It Will Be Epic\")\">legal efforts<\/a> against\u200c former\u200d President Trump. In pursuit of their agenda, they warn of launching\u200c an organized strike against the judicial branch. This response was triggered by a New York Times article \u200dcriticizing Justice Samuel Alito for \u2064his alleged far-right\u200c political bias. Raskin\u2063 seized\u200c the opportunity to advocate for a federal ethics panel to oversee cases and\u200b reform the Supreme\u200b Court, particularly if Alito fails to\u2063 recuse himself from a case related \u2064to January \u200c6. He urged \u200bAmericans to trust the institution only once the Democrats control its functions. However, critics \u200dargue the Supreme Court isn&#8217;t corrupt\u200c but merely operating outside the executive influence or as an extension of \u2062the Democratic \u200bParty.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Democrats are so desperate to keep the Supreme Court from torpedoing their lawfare efforts against former President Donald Trump that members like Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., are openly vowing to launch a coordinated attack on the judicial branch if they don\u2019t get their way. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, The New York Times published a smear piece on Justice Samuel Alito \u201cto indict the conservative judge as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-most-dangerous-part-of-the-nyt-alito-flag-meltdown-is-the-politicization-of-patriotism\/\" title=\"The NYT's Alito Flag Controversy: Politicizing Patriotism\">partisan ideologue corrupted<\/a> by far-right politics\u201d all because an \u201cAppeal to Heaven\u201d flag flew outside his New Jersey beach home last year, my colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/24\/the-most-dangerous-part-of-the-nyt-alito-flag-meltdown-is-the-politicization-of-patriotism\/\">Tristan Justice<\/a> explained. The story came days after another hit piece alleged Alito was compromised because of an upside-down American flag flown by his wife. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1471041548\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d152a20e47815e21b8535156676013fe fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d152a20e47815e21b8535156676013fe\"><\/div>\n<p>Raskin pounced on the stories, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/4672779-jamie-raskin-upside-down-flag-samuel-alito-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arguing<\/a> on MSNBC that if Alito doesn\u2019t \u201cheed the calls to recuse himself from the [Jan. 6-related] case,\u201d there should be a federal ethics panel made up of circuit judges to which Raskin and other Democrats can whine and undermine the Supreme Court any time they don\u2019t get their way. This is in addition to House Democrats\u2019 newly announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/scotus-expansion-term-limits-on-the-menu-for-new-house-task-force\/\">task <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-spike-in-florida-coronavirus-cases-despite-no-mask-mandate\/\" title=\"No Spike in Florida Coronavirus Cases Despite No Mask Mandate\">force<\/a><\/a>, of which Raskin is a member, that exists to overhaul the court through legislation and rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>Raskin took his attacks one step further, last week encouraging Americans to \u201cfall out of love\u201d with the Supreme Court and <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2024\/05\/jamie-raskin-on-how-america-fix-supreme-court.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arguing<\/a> the institution can only be trusted once Democrats have control of its operations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n[T]o my mind, we\u2019ve gotta organize the people in America. That\u2019s where the power comes from. And we will, if and when we win back the House and the Senate and the White House. We will look at the Supreme Court and figure out what can be done about that extremely corrupted and contaminated body.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fellow Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse reiterated Raskin\u2019s message in a post on X saying, \u201cYes we will, brother. Yes we will.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"V\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Raskin: \u201cif and when we win back the House and the Senate and the White House we will look at the Supreme Court and figure out what can be done about that extremely corrupted and contaminated body.\u201d Yes we will, brother. Yes we will.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tqrffjtEnl\">https:\/\/t.co\/tqrffjtEnl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenWhitehouse\/status\/1794092634648035673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>But the Supreme Court isn\u2019t \u201ccorrupted\u201d or \u201ccontaminated.\u201d It\u2019s simply not acting as footsoldiers of the executive branch or an arm of the Democrat Party. And that\u2019s the real reason Raskin and other Democrats are hell-bent on playing up the Alito nonstory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a50d27a685dd12c10792f29b7a3449b5 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a50d27a685dd12c10792f29b7a3449b5\"><\/div>\n<p>The Supreme Court is set to rule on whether obstruction charges can be levied against Jan. 6 protesters \u2014 and could possibly derail one of Special Counsel Jack Smith\u2019s cases against Trump involving presidential immunity. By falsely connecting the \u201cAppeal to Heaven\u201d flag to so-called \u201cright-wing extremism\u201d rather than its <em>actual <\/em>history of the Revolutionary War, Democrats can smear the court \u2014 as Raskin put it \u2014 as a \u201ccorrupted\u201d and \u201ccontaminated\u201d branch of government that can no longer function independently but must be supervised by Democrat lawmakers. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/scotus-expansion-term-limits-on-the-menu-for-new-house-task-force\/\">Democrats\u2019 rosily named \u201ccourt reform\u201d task force<\/a> is working to expand the bench, create term limits for justices, force the Supreme Court to create a code of ethics based on partisan public input, and create an independent review board to hear ethics complaints lobbed against the justices.<\/p>\n<p>But as Alexander Hamilton warned in Federalist 78, the judicial branch \u201cis in continual jeopardy of being overpowered, awed, or influenced\u201d if tied to either the executive or legislative branch. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter; I mean so long as the Judiciary remains truly distinct from both the Legislature and the Executive,\u201d Hamilton wrote. \u201cAnd it proves, in the last place, that as liberty can have nothing to fear from the Judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1ea098ca64927e6e2dba1ad45849f80f fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1ea098ca64927e6e2dba1ad45849f80f\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-343c1eb68f1718acd8c7b47b89916cde fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-343c1eb68f1718acd8c7b47b89916cde\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats, anxious about the Supreme Court possibly overturning their legal campaign against ex-President Donald Trump, are threatening a unified assault on the judiciary. Notably, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., stated this if they fail to achieve their goals. This emerged after The New York Times ran a contentious article last week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2254107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/34309004041_ba90f8c2cc_k-e1716852769493.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/34309004041_ba90f8c2cc_k-e1716852769493.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254106","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}