In an interview with Vanity Fair, the senator championed major ethics reform in the wake of Samuel Alito’s flag scandal. However, he threw cold water on what may be Democrats’ last hope: DOJ action.
“People are losing, by leaps and bounds, confidence and trust in the Supreme Court ,” Congressman Hank Johnson told me Thursday of the Supreme Court ’s ethics scandals, “and thereby losing confidence and trust in the rule of law upon which our democracy is based.” Alito—who has authored some of the most controversial decisions of the John Roberts court, including the Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v.
With Mitch McConnell and his Republican conference seeming no more willing to entertain Democrats’ push for reform this time around, it’s unclear what means lawmakers have to hold the Supreme Court accountable. Durbin—a longtime champion of Supreme Court reform—has said the Alito scandal “demonstrates why the Supreme Court needs an enforceable code of conduct,” vowing to continue the Senate Judiciary Committee’s “thorough investigation” into justices’ “ethical lapses.
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