Democrats are declaring war on the Supreme Court in anticipation of former President Donald Trump’s cases being ruled on and, potentially, Trump winning in November.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) was made the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee after Democrats pushed aside then Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) for not being ruthless enough for their liking. Durbin has been heavily pushing to delegitimize the court based on non-scandals about the wives of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, culminating in him shaming Chief Justice John Roberts for not agreeing to “establish an enforceable code of conduct.”
When Durbin and other Democrats say they want an “enforceable code of conduct,” what they mean is they want a way to forcibly recuse justices they don’t like based on fabricated scandals that they gin up. That is why Durbin says, “The reputation of the court has been damaged.” He would know; he is one of the ones doing the damage.
The goal is to find ways to delegitimize the court at the very least or scheme up some way of blocking justices from ruling on controversial issues while the Democrat-appointed justices are in the minority. This is why Durbin is leading attacks on Thomas’ vacations, why Democrats can’t stop talking about Thomas’ wife’s political opinions, why the media is running a hit job on Alito over a dispute with his neighbors, and why Durbin keeps trying to drag Roberts in front of the Senate so Democrats can berate him on camera for political points.
All of this is the act of sore losers who can’t weaponize the Supreme Court as they would like to.
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Democrats want the court not just to affirm unconstitutional policies (such as New York’s war against the First and Second Amendments that was recently struck down) or impose their will on the country over the objection of voters (as was done with Roe v. Wade before it was struck down). It is also them wanting a court that will allow the persecution of their political opponents, whether it be through Trump’s presidential immunity case or the attempts by Democrat-run states to keep Trump (and future Republicans) off the ballot.
The Democratic Party will not rest until the Supreme Court is a tool of its political power, just as the bureaucracies of the executive branch have become. That could be through court-packing or it could be through an “enforceable” code of conduct that would inevitably target only the reliably conservative justices about whom Democrats are running their media hit jobs right now. These attacks are power-hungry, bad-faith, partisan politics that do not deserve to be humored or entertained in any way.