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Lindsey Graham shoots down Supreme Court ethics rules from Senate Democrats

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, blocked attempts by Democrats to impose a code of ethics on Supreme Court justices.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin sought a unanimous consent request to pass legislation championed by him and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse to implement a

“The ethics crisis at the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, is unacceptable,” Durbin, the second-ranking Senate Democrat as majority whip, said. “It is unsustainable and unworthy of the highest court in the land.” Republicans have decried Democrats’ yearslong endeavor to impose such laws over the Supreme Court as an attempt to undermine its conservative majority and an inappropriate effort to govern a separate branch of government under America’s separation of powers.

Sen. Lindsey Graham , left, joined by Sen. Ted Cruz and other Senate Republicans, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 9, 2024.

 

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