Senate GOP stages hearing walkout to protest Supreme Court-related subpoenas
Source: The Hill
Tempers exploded at a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Thursday before Democrats voted to subpoena a major conservative donor and a prominent conservative activist linked to the Supreme Courts ethics scandals.
The Republican members of the committee stormed out of the hearing room in the Hart Building shortly before Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) called a vote on authorizing the subpoenas.
The meeting came after weeks of partisan fighting among members of the Judiciary Committee over plans to subpoena conservative donor Harlan Crow and activist Leonard Leo, the co-chairman of the Federalist Society, in response to reporting by ProPublica that revealed the two men played roles in taking conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito on luxury vacations.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4335581-senate-gop-stages-hearing-walkout-to-protest-supreme-court-related-subpoenas/
Magas circling the wagons to preserve corruption of the Old White American Order.
Mr.Bill
(24,438 posts)there were no dick pictures shown at the hearing. The republicans are known to like those.
bluestarone
(17,228 posts)Gotta protect their bankrolled BILLIONAIRE friends
PortTack
(32,872 posts)usonian
(10,133 posts)NOW.
AllaN01Bear
(19,231 posts)SalamanderSleeps
(608 posts)Chuck Grassley - IA
John Cornyn - TX
Mike Lee - UT
Ted Cruz - TX
Josh Hawley - MO
Tom Cotton - AR
John Kennedy - LA
Thom Tillis - NC
Marsha Blackburn - TN
It's like they never left high school.
KS Toronado
(17,649 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,930 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(5,264 posts)If we let a few decent congresspeople investigate this, they will find out just how much ALL RETHUG OFFICIALS do it, and then there will be recalls and impeachments due to not actually doing the job they were sent up there to do, and fines... who wants that??
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)The Rs control the House, where impeachment happens, and they will not vote for it.
Without that, the Senate can't act to convict. Even if an impeachment somehow cleared the House, the Senate doesn't have the votes to boot out the criminal 6 on the USSC.
calimary
(81,751 posts)DemocraticPatriot
(4,576 posts)NBachers
(17,233 posts)summer_in_TX
(2,790 posts)The Republican members of the committee stormed out of the hearing room in the Hart Building shortly before Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) called a vote on authorizing the subpoenas.
Or did their little maneuver succeed in derailing the subpoenas?
ancianita
(36,275 posts)Angleae
(4,517 posts)onecaliberal
(33,112 posts)They are corrupt from stem to stern. They are criminals, and they are not there to serve the public. They are in gross violation of their oath.
peppertree
(21,868 posts)The country's four Supreme Court justices - down to that number because the RW opposition has blocked the replacement of the missing fifth one by the current center-left president - all have serious corruption cases against them in their home towns (stalled, of course).
Moreover, and among other things, they've been taking to invalidating longstanding congressionally-passed laws - replacing them with the very laws these bills replaced, covering for federal judges that were never confirmed (while forcing others who were, out), and even determining revenue-sharing percentages (like in the U.S., a strictly congressional prerogative).
So naturally, during the ongoing impeachment hearings the RW'ers walked out of the committee room - some kicking chairs and yelling profanities.
Why? Because the Supreme Court was always their end-run around any legislation they didn't like - as well as the one guarantee that their archenemy, Vice President Cristina Kirchner, could be railroaded no matter what.
"No evidence - but no doubt," as the latest ruling against her put it.
Suffice it to say, Trump reportedly expressed admiration for Argentina's discredited judiciary in his recent meetings with this kleptocrat pal Macri.
You can just hear him: "I wish we could have that here, Mauricio - that, I can tell you."
Evolve Dammit
(16,930 posts)peppertree
(21,868 posts)Including, as you can imagine, widespread eavesdropping against friends and foes alike - which got Macri indicted but then acquitted, thanks to his "napkin" judges.
And that's a cornerstone of Trumpian governance: napkin judges like Aileen, who'll rubber-stamp anything.
In return for a little $omething, of course.
Evolve Dammit
(16,930 posts)legally speaking.
mahina
(17,856 posts)Are there any sites you would recommend for further reading on this?
Who do you suppose is running this show?
The Bopper
(193 posts)Probably pissed off they arent in on the gravy train.
Hotler
(11,537 posts)republianmushroom
(14,183 posts)They don't seem to mine an unethical supreme court.
LudwigPastorius
(9,369 posts)3..2..1..
Just out of spite
The Wizard
(12,569 posts)against the rule of law should be shouted from the mountaintops .
bucolic_frolic
(43,723 posts)sarchasm
(1,017 posts)nwduke
(352 posts)their lying conman messiah, Donnie, and protect corrupt Supreme Court Judges who are bankrolled by a couple of greedy billionaire's looking for more money because a billion just isnt enough!🤬
LetMyPeopleVote
(146,472 posts)tonekat
(1,842 posts)Don't you block our Gravy Train
We have so much more to gain
Gravy Train! Gravy Train!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,819 posts)https://www.yahoo.com/news/john-cornyn-ted-cruz-flee-175731523.html
Ahem "Hunter Biden"