#shorts Senator Kennedy said, “There’s not a dummy on this Judiciary Committee, but you don’t have to be Oliver Wendell Scalia to figure out that this legislation is meant to be a court-killing machine. For example, it would allow any Jacqueline out there in America, in a tinfoil hat, whose own dog thinks he’s another Nutter, to file a motion to recuse a United States Supreme Court Justice. Now, what could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong? My Democratic colleagues know that, so I’m not going to go too far down that road.
Kennedy: I would be more upset if my Dems trying to move it when they have the votes
While I’m upset with this bill, I would be more upset if my Democratic colleagues were trying to move it when they have the votes. Now, they don’t have the votes. You got the votes to get it out of here, but this thing’s dead as Fried Chicken on the senate floor, and it’s dead as Fried Chicken in the house.
Kennedy: if you did have the votes & could pass this bill, you wouldn’t do it
And maybe I’m naive, but I believe in my heart of hearts that if you did have the votes and you could pass this bill, which we all know would just destroy the United States Supreme Court as an institution, you wouldn’t do it. Maybe I’m naive. It’s still a dangerous bill.
On 7/20/2023, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted, 11-10 along party lines, to approve Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D-R.I.) bill that would overhaul ethics and transparency requirements for the Supreme Court, a move Republicans regard as an erosion of separation of powers and an attack on the conservative court. Whitehouse, one of Congress’ leading critics of the court, said Congress must act because the justices have failed to implement any meaningful reforms on their own. “You don’t have to be Oliver Wendell Scalia to figure out that this legislation is meant to be a court-killing machine,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said. “This thing’s dead as fried chicken on the Senate floor and it’s dead as fried chicken in the House.”
Republicans said the entire Democratic effort was an act of retaliation aimed at the high court’s 6-3 conservative supermajority and its decisions last year. Republicans repeatedly referenced Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s impassioned statement on the steps of the Supreme Court in March 2020 warning Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh that they “have released the whirlwind.” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, explained the danger that the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act of 2023 poses to the U.S. Supreme Court and the constitutionally-mandated balance of powers.
other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/ipAG4grA7hE
Kennedy: I would be more upset if my Dems trying to move it when they have the votes; if you did have the votes & could pass this bill, you wouldn’t do it