Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-IL) confirmed Thursday that the committee will vote next week to authorize subpoenas for a few powerful right-wing players known to have intimate, monetary relationships with Supreme Court justices.
If they are so anxious to block the subpoenas, they must be guilty AF.
As naked as the day they were created from whole cloth.
In 10 years the SC will be all the leverage they have, seems to me.
Graham is referring to a few steps ahead in the process where, hypothetically, Senate Judiciary Democrats authorize the subpoenas, Durbin sends them out, the three subjects summarily ignore the calls to come before the committee and Durbin has to go to the floor for a full Senate vote to enforce the subpoenas. That vote would be subject to the Senate filibuster, meaning that several Republicans would have to join with the Democrats.
Well I think this would be dandy. I do hope Senator Durbin simply proceeds. Let the Republican party go on record.
Is there still anyone who believes that the GOP now realizes that they only way they retain power is to Cheat?
Subpoenas are for the proletariat. Let them eat cake.
I am more than tired of Lindsey clutching her pearls and threatening tit for tat. Let them be petty. It’s just that much more fodder for 2024 to sweep them out.
I post this so often i should have a macro for it…
The GOP, the pro-crime party.
It is interesting how everyone assumes they will ignore the subpoenas. It seems like there was a time when people would at least show up to a Congressional subpoena, even if they just blathered nonsense at the hearing. Blowing them off was a huge deal for the media (if it ever even happened), not just blasé, another day at the office.
ETA: I think I recollect someone showed up for around 11 hours of questioning, back in the day…
Not even a scintilla of pretending they care about corrupt SC behavior. Let’s do our regular thought experiment. Oh wait, we don’t have to: any Democratic Justice would’ve resigned a long time ago.
As we have seen, Congressional subpoenas are unenforceable. DOJ can bring contempt charges but that does not enforce testimony.
My goodness!
Why would any Senator be against SCOTUS ethical oversight? Are they against justices behaving in an ethical manner?
Good grief!
(((sigh)))
(lays head on desk)
So much for the ‘cooling saucer’ of the Senate. These wraiths (Cotton, Graham, Hawley et al) are set to burn the whole thing down. (Note that all three of them are lawyers, by the way.)
P.S. Kudos to @kate for this gem: “Leonard Leo has a protection squad,” Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) added through a mouthful of crackers as he left the Senate Democrats’ lunch.
“You know you’re not gonna get 60 votes to enforce the subpoena.”
– Lindsey Graham, 2023
Spoken like a true American /s
Republicans are weak on law and order
“It’s not, as Senator Whitehouse says, an effort to expose wrongdoing in the Supreme Court, it’s an effort to delegitimize the Supreme Court because you don’t like the way they rule,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said
As usual, every Republican accusation is a confession turned on its ear. What Cotton really means is, “We’re trying to hide wrongdoing in the Supreme Court because we like the way they rule.”
All the leverage they NEED.
A rearguard and a lock. They’ve caught the car and all this nonsense springs from it. They are funded to the nines and careless with it. Has to blow.
What this does is tell those three individuals that they can safely ignore the subpoenas; the Repubs have their backs.
Amen. That is journalism you won’t find on broadcast TV, even MSNBC. Way to go Kate.