The legislation comes after years of increasing tension, and increasing partisanship, on the committee over the judiciary.
, aided by her staff, has advanced sales of her books through college visits over the past decade.
“The Roberts court has not been able to clean up its own mess,” said Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, the lead sponsor of the ethics bill. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the top Republican on the Judiciary panel, said that if the bill were to ever pass, “the Supreme Court as we know it would be destroyed.” Congress should stay out of the court’s business, Graham said.
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