In an interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), chair of the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the Federal Courts, discusses his ethical concerns with the Supreme Court and whether Congress contributed to a contentious confirmation process.
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#SupremeCourt #Congress #SheldonWhitehouse
Mitch McConnell has dedicated his life to stacking our courts so they only work for Rich, White Christo-Fascists. McConnell has worked hard to destroy America.
Separation of Powers does not obliterate checks and balances. Of course the legislature needs to have checks on the court just as the court has checks on the legislature. No branch of government is totally independent, nor should it be.
I think it has been going on since the Watergate/Nixon Resignation. The GOP has been attacking Democrats more and more viciously each successive year. What we need is election reform. Public funding only. Only the candidate can produce campaign ads. Limiting terms of service need to be addressed by the people. Referendum issues regarding funding,bterm limits, voters must approve any increase in salaries of elected officials.
The Electoral College was a necessity at the time this country was formed. Today communication is instantaneous. The electoral college should be abolished as it is a means of manipulating the will of the people at this point in time. Exactly who are the Electors that make up the Electoral College? Very Wealthy Business people, Billionaires, Millionaires, Corporate CEO, Bank CEOs, CFOs
ect. Time to eliminate the “middle man” in our elections. In reality,that is the only way to ensure the will of the people.
One Person One Vote!
We will eliminate the issues we’ve already experienced starting with hanging chads in Florida etc.
Money, regardless of whether it’s “dark” or not, drowns out the voice of 99.9% of the people.
Thank you Senator Whitehouse
The corrupted SCOTUS is legislating from the bench. Justice Thomas is an embarrassment, whose been bought by the super rich.
Chuck “bothsiderism” Todd has struck again.
Never make your employer feel too uncomfortable if you like your job.
10yr Term Limits please
This is the statesman we need.
We need a clean sweep and return to ethical values be careful who you vote in
Classic Chuck self-own:
CHUCK: “I Mean, It’s pretty well established Congress can’t make a law that does that, right?
SEN WHITEHOUSE: “It absolutely can.”
CHUCK:”Well, It doesn’t mean it’s constitutional.”
SEN WHITEHOUSE (laughs): “Yes it does…The laws we’re talking about now are actually laws passed by Congress.”
Frankly, I don’t see why they make it so complicated about removing a SCOTUS. Congress can’t recognize “bad behaviour” when they see it right in their faces? Article III, §1, of the Constitution provides that “[t]he Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour,….”
What constitutes good behavior for Supreme Court justice?
(1) A judge should be faithful to, and maintain professional competence in the law and should not be swayed by partisan interests, public clamor, or fear of criticism. (2) A judge should hear and decide matters assigned, unless disqualified, and should maintain order and decorum in all judicial proceedings.
Who can remove a Supreme Court judge?
Federal judges can only be removed through impeachment by the House of Representatives and conviction in the Senate. Judges and Justices serve no fixed term — they serve until their death, retirement, or conviction by the Senate.
It’s where the ethics should be the strongest. We should stop accepting the corruption, and unethical behavior.
The Supreme Court would not exist, if they were actually held accountable for their rulings and personal conduct.
Well crap!!!. Supreme Court corrupt !!😡😡😡
Lets pass a law where Supreme Court got a limited time
In case anyone else couldn’t follow the history Chuck referred to: in 2020 a change occurred re: Federal courts other than the Supreme Court (“the lower courts” as Chuck stated). The Senate used to be able to filibuster every federal judge appointment. Now only the Supreme Court. FYI.
To Sen. Whitehouse – thank you for being there and for all your efforts. They count for a lot.
The Supreme Court hasn’t even addressed the US Insular cases or the Jones Act. It still under European Maritime Law and caters to the EU. 😂
We need many more like Senator Whitehouse
Todd, speak slowly and clearly, form the words from your lips. Don’t jump to your script? Think about it. Whitehouse is solid!
Sen. Whitehouse is The Man! Thank you for all the good that you do
Make Accountability Great Again
Vote. Blue
Thank you Sen Whitehouse for always keeping it real!~~~~
Absolutely NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW – federal judges think themselves GODS – they have better come to their senses!!!
Senator Whitehouse is a super-star for truth & accountability! Whitehouse for the White House? 🙂
Cut the funding to the Supreme Court until actionable steps are in place to address the current set of problems, namely ethics.
The lower judges should be able to impeach the higher, if they act in unison to do it. There should be some intrajudicial checks. But… the lower judges sometimes are iffy too in some instances. The laws have to change.
Many groups, societies and foundations, are “friends of the court” but enemies to the country.
Chuck Todd is such an annoying apologist for right wing crap.
I guarantee that the second Republicans have the opportunity to pack the Supreme Court they will do it. It’s usually Democrats who are guarded by ethics or anything that doesn’t look proper. You must always remember what Mitch did when Obama had the opportunity to name Garland to the SCOTUS and what he did when Trump was confronted with a similar situation. He said, without remorse, “I will fill it” with the most piercing devilish grin on his face. He filled the court gleefully in 10 days.
*Whitehouse is a partisan jerk! He had no problem with the court when it was liberal and making rulings that half the country disagreed with!*
I wish Senator Whitehouse ran for President but old corporate corrupt democrats in leadership would block it like they fo everything the peopke want.
Ethics regeme/committee AND add a series of checkboxes to the pop vote so we can early-terminate supreme court justices if seen unfit (what better way to guage the country’s opinion? Make them beholden to none except the voters)
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I do not see how any Ameican can respect SCOTUS as it has proven to be manipulated and unfair and unjust. Oh, and liars … 😡🤬
Chuck with his both sides nonsense. GOP is the only side to blame regarding judicial ethical scandal & judicial activism.
White people laws
White world
White religious
The Fascist Federalist Society is the real problem.
Both the details of republican “blame” and the democratic “blame” should be investigated. We need jounalists to Investigate and expose the truth behind the “blame” and maybe TRUTH will be told
He is spot on!
What woman, what worker, what voter has any confidence in the Supreme Court? It’s been taken over by religious fanatics. They do not care about the American people. They care about religious nuts paying them off.
Chuck Todd is so deficient. Can’t you find someone better?
I wish Chuck Todd would retire. He’s just not a smart human and doesn’t know how to tell the difference between a good argument and a fallacious one. His both sides-isms and the way he gives equal voice to idiotic claims are painful to watch and make me change the channel whenever he is on.
lock all these republicans who were involved in jan 6th up, including supreme court judges, for sedition , treason, & murder.and apply the 14th amendment. they will cooperate then. put new judges in now. vote new judges into the supreme court now. go back to ted roosevelt era bribe law.
TERM LIMITS would help
In my opinion, Citizens United is the root cause for this corruption. It allows rich corporations, rich religious organizations, and SuperPACs to be ‘a person.’ Disenfranchising the American people. And creating a behind-the-scenes oligarchy bankrolling candidates, campaigns, and elected/appointed officials. The only thing worse than power is power + big money.
Except to realize the corruption preceeded that decision and created that decision.
Chuck Todd shows us, once again, that he is unequipped to host this important public affairs program.
First, rather than follow the historical train of events behind the politicization and corruption of the Supreme Court, in order to help the public better understand how this corrosive problem came about in the first place, he lazily observes that “each side blames each other for the escalation,” as if clarity about the underlying drivers has nothing to do with the path toward an effective solution. Then, adding insult to injury, he shows his remarkable ignorance about the constitutional role Congress has to play in countering politicization of the nation’s highest court and placing a check on judicial corruption within it.
With both these gaffes, it seems as if the only research he’s done has been to read the press statements of Justice Roberts and Senator McConnell, without giving a single moment’s pause to consider whether or not these two individuals are themselves the primary source of the problem.
Chuck Todd is lazy, and he drapes his laziness in glib “both-sides-ism.” He is neither intellectually nor temperamentally qualified for his position. Every time he opens his mouth, he mocks the legacy of this groundbreaking program. Get rid of him before he dumbs it out of existence.
Cocktail napkins or finger bowel at table (finger bath at your plate)
Envious NO! Nasty cruel Tina Turner and friends!!! Steadman Harpo Studio United Nations!!!!
Sandy Hook Church yippee!
**Sandy Hook Church in Connecticut!!!**
Oh yeah basically known a church of England St of Connecticut
Transparency would be a good start. 18 year term limit would limit the damage, and give more than long enough terms.
DoJ could do ongoing ‘equivalent to security clearance’ to determine “Good Behaviour” per the Constitution on all judges and justices, including deep dive into financials and activities. Then the president sends the recomendations relating to these findings to the Senate, as to which ones are no longer displaying “Good Behaviour” and recommend their removal. The Senate then holds hearings and effectively follows the same format as when they approve a justice, except this time to remove. Note that to approve even a SCOTUS justice is only a majority vote. The method for removal is NOT impeachment, or else it would be described as such in the Constitution and the standard for removal is NOT “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors”.
Chuck Todd cannot be understood much of the time and what is a filibuster of the courts?
We can never recover from Tump’s seating THREE Justices. never.
Gee – what will Clarence do now that everyone knows who is paying for his vacations ?
But – what about what Thomas has already done ? He must go – he is obviously corrupt.
You guys fought a war of independence to get rid of a king, now you have 9. Come on guys either sort it out or come back into the commonwealth of the UK. At least our King has no control over governing for the people
Put Sen Whitehouse in the Whitehouse in 2024 & 2028! Defend our freedoms from the GOP thugs driving the country into dictatorship!
I mute YouTube scam ads
harry reid disaster, oh rhode island… says it all North East Carpet Bagger … Your a farce Senator and your party is destroying the country .. can you get the border under control? or are you going to allow 25 million illegals? 30 Million? 50 Million how many?
Ethics in the COURT BWHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHH
State have no standing in Federal elections… so sayth the supreme court
Why isn’t he running for President?
Whitehouse is way out of bounds. Congress has no authority over the S.C.
Republicans are controlling and abusive.
Let Justices of SCOTUS be forced to retire by age 67.
We knew since Justice Jackson was too much of a simpleton to answer “what is a woman” that the entire nation is headed to a moral default.
It’s the height of hypocrisy to have this crooked POS lecturing anyone on ethics. The entire is Senate nothing but a bunch of crooks.
The republicans can pull ANYTHING and the right wing owned and censored ‘liberal media’ will ether ignore it, twist it or let people forget it.The republicans perverted the Supreme Court for the same reason they hide behind schlock TV preachers: They can’t make a rational case for their policy.
He is brilliant
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” -Thomas A. Edison
Impeach roberts gorsuch kavanaugh thomas alito..investigate these justices they are sitting federal employees they arent gods even tho they think they are…checks and balances people checks and balances….
whitehouse is a sad communist crybaby that cant get his way
Double the court plus ethics review or ebolish it.
Senator Whitehouse needs to call for Justice Clarence Thomas to step down. Justice Abe Fortas had to step down in 1969 for these types of ethical violations. But Justice Thomas is WORSE! Leader Mitch McConnel said he was using the “Biden rule” when he blocked President Obama’s pick of Merrick Garland in 2016. Senator Whitehouse needs to say we are using the “Burger rule” as the former Chief Justice, a Republican appointee to boot, asked Justice Fortas to step down in 1969. It’s time for the “Burger rule” and Senator Whitehouse and a bipartisan group of Senators call for Justice Thomas to resign or be impeached! For the good of the country, and the integrity of the court, because Roberts, who is covering up EVERYTHING will not do anything.
They all have dirt on each other.
LoL. Guys not happy.. When it gose against them they cry.
All the Democratic appointments to the Supreme Court and Federal Courts are legitimate. Five extremist Republican appointees are not. Our country will never accept ANYONE who does not win a majority or a plurality of the popular vote. They do not have the will, honor, standing or backing of the American people. Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett are illegitimate. The “court” is illegitimate as long as they are on it. And any federal judge appointed by a “president” who lost the popular vote is ILLEGITIMATE. Our country will begin to demand that any case before an ILLEGITIMATE “judge” be changed to a legitimate judge, or WE WILL SUE! This is not partisan. Judges still around appointed by Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, Obama, and Biden are legitimate American judges. The others are not.
Republican corruption must stop
Whitehouse knows his business. I feel relieved that some one as competent as him is going after corruption at the highest level of the country.
Wrong
This proving leftists are fascists.
Says “fact free” MSNPC. Where Jussie Smollet was really attacked and where the Covington Kid’s are the aggressors.
Jake Tapper you lower your voice volume and we lose your meaning. My volume does not go up enough on my device unless I use earbuds. Why are you there if we cannot hear you?! You need a woman to do this job.
Jake, glad you had Sheldon Whitehouse on, he is always spot on. Republicans do not play fair, period. Jake, you interrupt people and especially women. Your opinion does not matter, be a journalist, ask thoughtful questions and follow ups and stay out of the way and when you talk, speak up.
The left thinks in the name of preserving democracy we need to get rid of the separation of powers.
Calling UPCHUCK TODD a Journalist is like calling A Tree Toilet paper !!
Maybe someday put not now
How dare a Democrat call anyone fact free? They are the most dishonest group of people always blaming others for what they do.
obviously , you don’t have the smarts to discuss anything on the same level as Whitehouse . ridiculous comment
These elites are out of sync with the people
The White House is simply describing what it sees looking in the mirror ,
I trust the Supreme Court of the United States is the law of the land and nobody in the White House or media should question that
Isn’t it ironic that the citizens that sit on the panel governing the highest court in the land doesn’t have an oversight committee governing their personal behaviors.?
Why do they keep bringing in people that just say what the mainstream is. Nobody trusts these news stations anymore because they only report and repeat what’s popular
Make the Supreme Court wear Yellow (or white) Robes to remind them they are supposed to Represent the light and not political parties…. Yellow robes should be earned by a high record of service that can be taken away if they fail to recuse themselves from enmeshment adjudicating or fail to follow a well defined standard of ethics…
Luuuuv Sheldon!!!
Justice is blind. Separation of Powers does not obliterate checks and balances.
So they have something in common with Whitehouse
Democracy has a problem when you cant hold the SCOTUS to account
Nice if the Senator has a TV Program if he retires.
Full Whitehouse
By his words alone, proving the Democrats protest when they don’t have enough robes to legislate from the bench. So they are willing to change tradition to get what they want. And when it comes back to hurt them they protest again. What selfish irresponsible behaviour from those who think they are so wise.