Sen. Durbin will try to force a vote on a Supreme Court ethics reform bill amid mounting Democratic calls for Justice Alito to recuse himself in the Trump immunity case.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., will attempt to force a vote Wednesday evening on a Supreme Court ethics bill backed by Democrats amid recent scrutiny of Justice Samuel Alito and renewed calls for the conservative justice to recuse from former President Trump's immunity case. Durbin will lead fellow Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats, Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Peter Welch, D-Vt.
Alito has since refused to step back from such cases, which include the matter of Trump's immunity claim in his federal election interference case, in which a decision from the court is expected this month. The unanimous consent request also comes in the wake of secret recordings that were taken by an undercover liberal filmmaker at the Supreme Court Historical Society's annual dinner on June 3.
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