Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Durbin, the chamber’s No. 2 Democrat, said Thursday that legislation to impose ethics standards on Supreme Court justices will be considered once Congress returns from July Fourth recess next week.
The move will make good on a previous promise from the Illinois Democrat to enact new laws governing the high court following reports of justices receiving lavish gifts, including those to conservative justices from wealthy Republican donors.
The Supreme Court’s current term came to a close last week, but not before it handed down several key wins for Republicans that dismantled race-based affirmative action in college admissions, sided with free speech and religious liberty over LGBTQ protection, and unraveled President Biden’s attempt to wipe out some $400 billion in student loan debt.
However, he — like many Republicans — argued that Democrats “and their left-wing dark money interests groups, as well their allies in the liberal media” were engaged in “a crusade to threaten, pack and smear the courts.” “We must pass much more binding and stringent ethics guidelines,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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