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Over 400,000 Americans Demand End to Supreme Court Corruption

Author:     JESSICA CORBETT
Source:     truthdig / Common Dreams
Publication Date:     OCT 31, 2023
 Link: Over 400,000 Americans Demand End to Supreme Court Corruption
Stephan:  

This, I hope, is the beginning of a new citizens’ action trend. It calls for the Senate to impose a set of ethics standards on the Supreme Court since the Court will not impose one on itself. Never in our history has the court become this corrupt, and the corruption is limited to the six MAGAt justices. The question is: Will the Democrats have the courage to act against the flagrant criminality of the six justices?

Analilia Mejia of the Center for Popular Democracy, center, joins other activists calling for ethics reform in the U.S. Supreme Court, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

National advocacy groups representing millions of U.S. citizens on Monday delivered over 400,000 petition signatures to the offices of top Senate Democrats to demand congressional action on alleged United States Supreme Court corruption.

The groups want senators to investigate recent claims against conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito and to bring Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D-R.I.) Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency (SCERT) Act up for a floor vote.

Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats advanced the bill—which would require an enforceable code of ethics and stronger disclosure rules—in July, but it is unlikely to pass the divided upper chamber or the GOP-controlled House of Representatives.

Still, the groups—including Center for Popular Democracy, Demand Justice, Indivisible, MoveOn, and Stand Up America—submitted the signatures to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin […]

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