Mike Lee Accuses Democrats Of 'Intimidating' And 'Threatening' Supreme Court Justices

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In remarks on the Senate floor last week, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) spoke against legislation to instill a code of ethics for Supreme Court justices.

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00:00Jack, the United States of America has benefited for nearly two and a half centuries from having

00:07one of the world's best, most objective judicial systems in the entire world.

00:17While no system run by fallible, mortal human beings can be described as perfect, ours is

00:24as good a system as has ever existed in the world, as certainly good as any that exists

00:30in the world today.

00:32At the capstone of that is an entity that exists by virtue, by operation of the Constitution,

00:37the Supreme Court of the United States.

00:39And this solution, the solution that's being ran through today, this is a solution in search

00:43of a problem that would itself create another problem for which there would be no solution.

00:49That problem would, in turn, turn one of our greatest strengths, an independent functioning

00:56judicial system, one that has preserved the rule of law in this country for nearly two

01:01and a half centuries, into something of a more political animal.

01:05It's not what we want.

01:07It's not what the Constitution contemplates.

01:09It's not what we've benefited from.

01:11And why?

01:12We must ask the question, why?

01:16Is there any grave moral offense that's been committed?

01:19No.

01:20And is there any grave violation of law that's been committed?

01:22No.

01:23Is there any violation of law that's been committed at all?

01:25No.

01:26There is not.

01:27What we have here is something very, very cynical.

01:31And what we have is that people on the left have a couple of cases currently pending before

01:38the Supreme Court of the United States, cases that they're worried about the outcome, cases

01:45in which they're worried that certain justices might rule against them.

01:50And they have some justices they don't like.

01:52They have some justices that they worry are going to reject the bad arguments that they've

01:57made in those cases.

01:59And so rather than double down on making sure that their arguments are good and that they're

02:04persuasive and recognizing that they're not going to win all cases, they're threatening,

02:09they're intimidating the justices.

02:14They're making, it's not just a mountain out of a molehill.

02:21They're making a mountain out of nothing.

02:23And they're doing this specifically to harass, threaten, and intimidate certain members of

02:29the Supreme Court in order to influence the outcome of pending litigation.

02:33And make no mistake, that is what's going on here.

02:35They're trying to trigger more recusals, recusals of those justices they don't like.

02:41The legislation they're offering would create more problems in this, would make it easier

02:45for them to trigger more recusals.

02:47This is not a good outcome.

02:49This is a political effort to influence the resolution of pending litigation before the

02:58Supreme Court of the United States and to threaten justices that don't toe the woke

03:03line.

03:06So Madam President, I withhold my objection at this moment.

03:11Is there an objection?

Mike Lee Accuses Democrats Of 'Intimidating' And 'Threatening' Supreme Court Justices

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