#shorts Senator Kennedy said, “This bill is, and we all know it, the Press knows it, this bill is about the Groff case, the Elena’s case, the Harvard case. It’s about Dobbs; it’s about Brewing; it’s about West Virginia versus EPA. We all know what a tell is, even if you’ve never played poker, you know what a tell is. A tell is behavior that gives unintended information about what you really think. There are funnier tells about what this bill is really about. I still can’t get over, Mr. Chairman, that he said it. I still can’t get over that Senator Schumer went to the steps of the United States Supreme Court and said the following, and I’m going to quote him because it gives me chills of the wrong kind. Senator Schumer said, ‘I want to tell you, Gorsuch, not Justice Gorsuch, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the Whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.’ Oh my God.
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: It’s about Harvard case, Dobbs..; Schumer: you will pay the price.