Long-vexed advocates cheered when Senate Judiciary Democrats finally stepped up their efforts to target corruption at the Supreme Court, setting aside their favored strongly worded letters and fist-shaking floor speeches for subpoenas.
Aggressive oversight of the Court may hinge on the 2024 election
GOTV 2024. It’s the only way to reach these bastards.
The logistical realities also play a role in the dampened enthusiasm, though. While Democrats have sufficient committee power to authorize the subpoenas without Republican help — which has no chance of materializing, as Republicans are furious about this effort — they’d need a full floor vote to enforce them, should Leo and Crow ignore the subpoenas. That vote would be subject to the filibuster, and committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has already promised to quash them.
Once again, the filibuster being used to prevent accountability.
However, the Senate Dem strategy has the logic backwards. You issue subpoena’s because the targets have relevant information regarding your investigation, full stop. Whether they comply or not is up to how much legal risk the target wants to take for defying a Congressional subpoena. For example, the House Jan 6th committee didn’t let concerns about enforcement stop them from issuing subpoena’s against relevant targets, including members of Congress.
Aggressive oversight of the Court may hinge on the 2024 election, [but will be stymied in every way possible by the GOP]
FIFY
The senate is worse than worthless, it’s malevolent…
What is going on in the Senate is going on in a lot of organizations dominated by boomers who won’t retire. They are getting old and don’t have the energy to actually do anything.
Yeah, they worked 10 whole weeks in a row. Boo-fucking-hoo. There was a time I worked 10 fucking weekends in a row and my job is a Mon-Fri gig. What a bunch of whiny bitches.
“I am in full agreement with the proposed Ethics Code of Conduct to be implemented by the Supreme Court. I believe the enforcement mechanism is more than sufficient to protect the Court from any taint of scandal, and the level of transparency should remove any doubt of the honesty of the Justices. And I further propose these same standards be extended to the House of Representatives.”
-Rep. George Santos
This household of two boomers who are actually doing a lot says “piss off.”
Let the process proceed to where the GoP is clearly covering for them. What are they so afraid of? That’s the strory (and campagn ads).
As someone in his mid-seventies who is still working for a living I can’t scrape up enough energy to get mad at you for you thoughtless insult.
It is time for the Democratic political party to tell the old gezzers stumbling around the halls of Congress to retire and enjoy life.
I’m a Dem and this kind of incompetence just infuriates me. I’m so sick of some of our party that has no spine whatsover.
Put a sniveling jellyfish like Dick Durbin and the like this is what you get.
I really hate that there is absolutely no fight in my party. No wonder we have bad raps for bringing teddy bears to a fight.
The old AF Senate needs to just go to bingo and let the younguns do the work they obviously do not want to do.
Wow! How many stereotypes and prejudices can you stack into a single ill-informed sentence?
I am a boomer. At my age I am entitled to all the stereotypes and prejudices I can muster.
They punted on punting Menendez again.
Dick Durbin is pretty much useless in a fight, just too nice to do anything useful.
The Senate Dems are doing what they can on this very difficult task. We could help them out a lot by doing our part in giving them bigger majorities so they don’t have to constantly waste time fighting off and dealing with the firehose of bullshit from the Rep side.
Holding the right-wing justices accountable will take a lot of work, especially since they are enthusiastically supported by the right wing in Congress, including by Sen. Graham. Subpoenas should be only the start. More time facing and/or haranguing the public about these issues might be helpful when they are taken up again.
It’s an old dance: Dems say they don’t act because Republicans might respond, and so nobody is on the record for taking any position at all. It’s a win-win for aging Senators. A larger majority will not change this dynamic; it wasn’t any different when Obama was President, and it was largely the same people.