Republican senators accused Democrats on Tuesday of attempting to hold back funding for Supreme Court security in exchange for implementing a code of ethics.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Supreme Court ethics reform on Tuesday, Republicans, including Sen. Ted Cruz (TX), accused Democratic colleagues of “threatening to cut off the funding for security at the Supreme Court” if the justices did not agree to come up with a novel code of conduct to govern themselves.
Cruz claimed the Democrats’ condition was striking given that Justice Samuel Alito suggested in a recent Wall Street Journal interview that attacks on the Supreme Court’s legitimacy are making them “targets of assassination.” Read more…
