![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In declining the invitation to testify in front of the committee, Roberts asserted that the court must remain independent and that it adheres to its own set of principles. Wade and striking down New York’s concealed carry law. ![]() GOP members of the panel dismissed the hearing as “selective outrage” - as ranking member Lindsey Graham of South Carolina put it - against the court’s conservative majority that recently handed down controversial high-profile decisions, including overturning Roe v. Supreme Court justices should follow a strict code of ethics when receiving gifts and travel or doing business with political funders and attorneys, argued Democratic senators Tuesday at a hearing that Chief Justice John Roberts declined to attend.Īfter a spate of investigative articles detailing Justice Clarence Thomas’ luxury travel and real estate transactions with a GOP donor, and a property sale by a limited liability company partly owned by Justice Neil Gorsuch to a law firm head, Democratic leaders on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary maintained the highest court in the land cannot be trusted to police itself. Beacon editor Lauren McCauley contributed reporting to this story. ![]()
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