McConnell suggests 'discipline' for Dem senators pressuring Supreme Court over Alito flags

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNBC

Published Wed, Jun 5 2024 3:34 PM EDT Updated 2 Hours Ago


Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., suggested Wednesday that the Supreme Court should punish at least two Democratic senators over their calls for Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from key cases related to former President Donald Trump.

Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island are bound by court rules that “provide for discipline against those who engage in conduct unbecoming an officer of the court,” McConnell said on the Senate floor. Numerous Democrats in both chambers of Congress have called out Alito following reports that flags associated with pro-Trump efforts to overturn the 2020 election results were flown at his homes.

But McConnell singled out Blumenthal and Whitehouse because they are members of the Supreme Court bar. He argued that the two Democrats ran afoul of the American Bar Association’s code of judicial conduct by “privately” asking Chief Justice John Roberts “to change the course of pending litigation.”

They are therefore “potentially engaged in unethical professional conduct before the court,” McConnell said of Blumenthal and Whitehouse, both of whom are members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Whitehouse, in a statement to CNBC, said, “When Mitch McConnell, Leonard Leo and the Wall Street Journal editorial page are all criticizing you about the Supreme Court, it’s a pretty good sign you’re on the right track.”

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/05/mcconnell-suggests-discipline-for-dem-senators-pressuring-supreme-court-over-alito-flags.html

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More GOP mob tactics.

[Lonestarblue]

1. Moscow Mitch needs to be put out to pasture.

And Democrats need to remember that most Republicans today are evil, corrupt, mean-spirited people who wouldn’t give them a helping hand for any reason.

[fantase56]

10. I think Mitch needs to be

put under the pasture…….

[Traurigkeit]

11. Quite right

[niyad]

38. In moscow.

[BOSSHOG]

27. Mcconnel would have died a long time ago

If it had not been for SOCIALIZED MEDICINE. Let’s hear it for conservative values.

[machoneman]

2. Fuck McTurtle with a red hot poker! He's an ass after all the shit his side has pulled for their Golden God-man.

[Traurigkeit]

12. Especially screwing up things for the black president. McTurtle's words

[Irish_Dem]

3. The GOP brings us into 21st century dystopia.

People doing good are punished.

People doing evil are rewarded.

[wolfie001]

16. Hedge fund justice

Also, private equity justice. Take your pick.

[Irish_Dem]

18. I guess the saying is right, money is the root of all evil.

Human greed will destroy democracy and the planet.

[druidity33]

57. Actually that's not the saying...

The love of money is the root of all evil. That's the saying.

[Irish_Dem]

59. Oh that is exactly the correct way to put it.

It is not money, it is greed.
Which is a money addiction.

No amount of money is ever enough to fill the hole in some people's souls.

And they will destroy everything in their path to get what they want.

[patphil]

4. That toilet you hear flushing is carrying away the last vestiges of Senator McConnell's honor and dignity.

[niyad]

39. That happened a loooooooong time ago.

[Traildogbob]

5. The same

Rotting bag of shit that refused to impeach Trump and said the courts should prosecute Trump crimes.
I say load all these Putin puppets up and mass deport their asses, dressed in Russian military clothes and dumped in Ukraine. Let em defend their father land.
Yea and include Blackburn, MTG, Boebert and all the those women that have become too loud mouthed. Not my words, a GQP candidate on Bannon’s Russia media cast.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Republicans in Congress are threatening to disarm the Justice Department, and calling

for Supreme Court interference into the New York State court case, while McConnell is getting his panties in a knot over calls for action because of the obvious corruption in the Supreme Court.

You can't make this stuff up.

[groundloop]

7. Fuck you Moscow Mitch, you're what got us to this point in the first place.

[DENVERPOPS]

30. Yes

In many ways, more so than Trump Himself......

[NanaCat]

8. They can use the same defense you traitors always do

About how you can't be punished for acts you take for legislative reasons.

Deal with it Moscow mung.

[mahina]

9. How dare they stand up for this country?

[Qutzupalotl]

13. Failure to recuse is conduct unbecoming a justice

so you see their dilemma.

[onecaliberal]

14. Child rape supporter said what?

[Xipe Totec]

15. Speech and Debate, MOFO nt

[Evolve Dammit]

17. F off Moscow Mitch. Still supporting the shredding of the Constitution and Democracy. n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. Moscow Mitch

[Hermit-The-Prog]

20. MoscowMitch should go visit his buddy Oleg Deripaska, or go fight for Putin directly.

[dlk]

21. Mitch likes his discipline...

n/t

[nakocal]

22. McConnell suggests discipline for Senators who want the

law to be followed.

[slumcamper]

23. ummmmmmmm

that's all

[OldBaldy1701E]

24. Yeah... Mitch the B***h...

https://i.postimg.cc/v8qbbhK8/temp-Imagenbv5-Pj.avif

[Drum]

25. I clicked only for the replies, and DUers do not disappoint

[CaptainTruth]

26. I got your "discipline" right here Mitch.

[Traildogbob]

28. I anxiously await

His final freeze up. The one he never comes back from.

[Blue Owl]

29. Eat shit and die turtle face

[hadEnuf]

31. GFY Mitch.

Your SCOTUS pals are corrupt just like you are.

[DBoon]

32. The gravedigger of democracy strikes again

[JoseBalow]

33. Glorified Hillbilly

[Blue Idaho]

34. Isn't he dead yet?

Walk into the light Mitch…

[Katcat]

40. No light where he's going

They use bonfires to heat the pokers

[The Wizard]

54. Just too crooked to lay down

[babylonsister]

35. Laughable. Check out your own party. nt

[BaronChocula]

36. Correction

Those senators actually are making very public requests for SCOTUS to adhere to ethics guidelines to which the rest of the judiciary is bound. Not private. Not tampering. But in dealing with the crooked white nationalist cohorts in his cabal, he probably assumes that these ethics calls are tampering.

[SunSeeker]

42. Exactly. They're publically calling for Roberts to make SCOTUS adhere to ethics rules.

Their letter to him was not private, it was released publicly. They are not “privately” asking Chief Justice John Roberts “to change the course of pending litigation.”

For Mitch to threaten them with some sort of trumped up ethics hearing for writing that letter is akin to a SLAPP suit, and amounts to an unconstitutional attack on these two senators' 1st Amendment rights to speech and to petition their government for a redress of grievances--which was the purpose of their letter!

The First Amendment reads in full:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[AKwannabe]

41. Go back in The shell

McTurtle

[Hekate]

43. Mitch McConnell likes to punish his colleagues. I will never forget what he said to Senator Liz Warren...

She was warned!
She was given an explanation!
And she persisted.”

Left unsaid but hanging in the air was, “How dayah she, suh, I say, how dayah she! “

[90-percent]

44. I have an offensive remark about this

WARNING! LOCKER ROOM TALK. DO NOT READ! I'VE WARNED YOU! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

I wouldn't give a republic the sweat off my balls if he was in the desert dying of thirst.

Remarkable, I read this in a drag racing magazine in thr 80's. It was Bob Gliddens comment about felliow Pro Stock Racer Warren Johnson.

-90% Jimmy

[liberal N proud]

45. Retaliation is a popular trend for republicans

[King_Klonopin]

46. So, let me get this straight . . .

It's the DEMOCRATIC SENATORS who are out of line and need discipline...
for daring to say something critical about a corrupt, conservative judge...
for fulfilling their responsibilities to maintain "checks and balances" between branches of government...
and for speaking the obvious fucking truth that the SCOTUS has a huge ethics problem and has been
packed with political moles.

The country has gone completely fucking batshit crazy -- driven there on the insane klown bus
known as the GOP. If this is the party-line response, then the GOP has lost all sense of decency,
justice, and right vs wrong. They are hopelessly lost, willfully staggered off the cliff of perdition.

HST was right: "a generation of swine"!

[Oopsie Daisy]

47. Later, he also said --

[Botany]

48. Considering McConnell used the Constitution as toilet paper as per President Obama's Constitutionally

…. directed pick on nominating a person to the Supreme Court of the United States he can shut
the fuck up and go off and die.

[Scrivener7]

49. There is no end to that man's gall and hypocrisy.

[Hotler]

50. I'm surprised he didn't call for them to be tied to a post and whipped. nt

[Gore1FL]

51. LOL. They just phone in the fake outrage now, it appears. nt

[The Wizard]

52. McConnell played a major role

in debasing and corrupting the Court. Lock him up.

[CrispyQ]

53. But participating in an insurrection of the government isn't considered conduct unbecoming, right Mitch? --nt

[pecosbob]

55. America suggests all insurrectionists be expelled from Congress.

[Midnight Writer]

56. While you're on your high horse, Mitch, what about the Senators and Congressmen ...

who showed up at Trump's criminal trial to enflame passions and intimidate jurors and court staff.

Or the Congressmen who voted to not approve the election results on Jan 6, 2021?

Or the Senators who coordinated with the fake electors scheme?

Or the Senators and Congressmen who are attacking our Justice Department and federal law enforcement?

Or the Senators who keep blocking appointments that jeopardize our national security?

Or the Senators and Congressmen who publicly lie everyday on the floor of Congress?

Or the Senators and Congressmen who are calling for the jailing and/or execution of people like Fauci or Strzok or Comey without being able to articulate a single criminal charge?



 

[prodigitalson]

58. I thought Mitch McConnell froze to death like year ago