Calls for SCOTUS Ethics Probe Grow as Court Lawyer Defends Alito

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'It's time for our elected officials to do their job, and serve as a true check on the judiciary.'

"Supreme Court justices have avoided accountability for too long," said one critic."It's time for our elected officials to do their job, and serve as a true check on the judiciary."Demands for a congressional investigation into potential ethics violations at the U.S. Supreme Court intensified Monday after a lawyer for the court refused to answer questions from two lawmakers about allegations regarding Justice Samuel Alito.from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep.

"Who is responsible for policing the relationship between the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court Historical Society to ensure that paid membership in the Society is not used as a means of gaining undue influence?" the lawmakers asked. "Justice Alito has said that neither he nor Mrs. Alito told [Faith & Action donors] the Wrights about the outcome in the Hobby Lobby case," Torrey said."The justice never detected any effort on the part of the Wrights to obtain confidential information or to influence anything he did in either an official or personal capacity.

Torrey's dismissal of Whitehouse and Johnson's concerns and his refusal to launch a probe made it clear that congressional committees tasked with overseeing the courts"must respond with an actual investigation," Kang said.

 

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It was time in 2020 when Democrats had both the presidency and Congress. Now it's too late.

Those six clown justices need more than just a 'true check.' In their religious partisanship they are traitors to the American people.

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