Pirate's Cove

No one should be surprised that a liberal on the court fails to understand the Constitutional provisions, nor that a liberal wants to give up power to another branch of the federal government. Liberals have loved giving up their Constitutional power to the Executive branch….as long as a Democrat is in the White House. Of course, a lot of that power goes to the federal bureaucracy, and there’s not a damned thing the President can do about it

Kagan enters fray over Congress’ power to police Supreme Court

Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday jumped into the heated debate over ethics at the Supreme Court, arguing that Congress has broad powers to regulate the nation’s highest tribunal despite the recent claim from one of her conservative colleagues that such a step would violate the Constitution’s separation of powers.

Kagan’s comments, at a judicial conference in Portland, came just days after the Senate Judiciary Committee responded to recent ethics controversies around justices’ luxury travel by advancing a bill requiring the court to establish an ethics code and setting up a mechanism that would enforce it.

“It just can’t be that the court is the only institution that somehow is not subject to checks and balances from anybody else. We’re not imperial,” Kagan told the audience of judges and lawyers attending the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. “Can Congress do various things to regulate the Supreme Court? I think the answer is: yes.”

Kagan insisted she was not responding directly to Justice Samuel Alito’s blunt statements in an interview last month that Congress would be violating the Constitution’s separation of powers if lawmakers sought to impose ethics and recusal policies on the high court.

The real point of the Leftist “ethics” bill from the hardcore Democrats in the Senate is to use it to manufacture a way to kick conservatives off the Court, at least when a Democrat is in the White House, that way the Democrat POTUS can replace them with far left wackjobs. That’s it.  Considering how shady Congress Critters are, they have no right to talk.

During her remarks on Thursday in an onstage conversation with a bankruptcy judge and attorney involved in organizing the conference, Kagan took a more conciliatory tone toward her conservative colleagues than she did last year in a flurry of public appearances that seemed to evince serious frustration with her role on the court. Those remarks followed the bitter disagreement over the court’s decision last June, by a 5-4 vote, to overturn the federal constitutional right to abortion that had been recognized for nearly half a century.

That made Democrats livid, and they decided on a course of action to get rid of Conservatives, and, if enacted they would enforce it and it would be a threat to rule the Correct Way for future conservatives.

There’s zero chance it passes the GOP controlled House, but, really, if Trump is the candidate he’ll lose in 2024, and obliterate any chance of retaking the Senate, and will most likely lose the House, meaning the Democrats can pass it. At which point the Supreme Court will rule that the law is un-Constitutional, setting up a rather interesting fight between the branches.

I wonder if Democrats have considered that if the law ever passes the GOP could use it against the liberal judges?

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