Key Dem senators seek meeting with chief justice over Alito flags

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Source: The Hill

05/24/24 3:51 PM ET


Key Democratic senators, both sitting on the Senate Judiciary Committee, are seeking to meet with Chief Justice John Roberts over recent reports of controversial flags being displayed at Justice Samuel Alito’s homes.

Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) demanded to meet with Roberts “as soon as possible” to talk over Supreme Court’s “ethics crisis” and urged the chief justice to “ensure” that Alito recuses himself from all cases related to the efforts to overturn the 2020 election and Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.

“We also renew our call for the Supreme Court to adopt an enforceable code of conduct for Justices,” the senators wrote in a letter released on Friday. “And we request a meeting with you as soon as possible, in your capacity as Chief Justice and as presiding officer of the Judicial Conference of the United States, to discuss additional steps to address the Supreme Court’s ethics crisis.”

The plea for a meeting come after The New York Times reported last week that an inverted U.S. flag, associated with the “Stop the Steal” movement, was flown at Alito’s Alexandria, Va., home. The revelation caused a backlash from many Democrats in Congress, and even some Republicans. The Times reported this week that Alito’s beach house flew an “Appeal to Heaven” flag — a flag adopted by Jan. 6 protesters, although it was designed during the Revolutionary War.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4684847-key-dem-senators-seek-meeting-with-chief-justice-over-alito-flags/

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1. Uncle Slappy Thomas ruled, and was the sole vote I believe, to keep his wife's emails to Mark Meadows private.

He’s into protecting the insurrectionists and that includes that loon Ginni, up to his sleazy eyeballs.

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2. Subpoena Roberts, Alito and Thomas to appear before the committee. Make them shine a light on it one way or another

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4. They can't

They don’t have the votes to approve one - and the court would just reject it on separation of powers grounds

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3. I'm sure republicans are just fine with alito

OF COURSE they are.

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5. I commend them for trying but Roberts is in the bag for Trump

as is every republican, "justice," on that court. If he asked them all to walk out on the street, lift up the their robes, pull down their pants, and show off their bare asses to the press they'd do it without question. They have no morals or self dignity any longer, if they ever had it to begin with.

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6. Justice Roberts reply, "SO WHAT !"

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7. I like that if nothing else, they're keeping this on the front page.

The actions of Alito and Thomas need some serious, and transparent, scrutiny. Given that they are arguable the nine most influential voices of law and jurisprudence in the nation, then yeah... I pretty much hold the Supreme Court Justices to a much, much higher standard of ethics and practices than I hold just abut anyone else to.