Days after Democrats proposed legislation to form a new code of conduct specifically for Supreme Court justices, conservative judicial advocates are raising alarms that enacting such legislation could lead to attempts to 'subtract' justices from weighing on key cases before the high court.
Carrie Severino, president of the conservative Judicial Crisis Network, responded Monday to Democrats' recent efforts to impose ethics rules on justices, saying the legislation is"kind of the mirror image" of"court packing," or the inverse of liberal calls to raise the number of justices sitting on the Supreme Court.
"On the one side, they're like, well, maybe we can add justices to try to shift the court in a political direction. OK, if that's not working, let's try to subtract other justices to try to get the same ... political agenda enacted. And either way, it's intimidation and it's improper," Severino told theSeverino said Democrats have jumped ship on floating proposals to raise the number of justices on the Supreme Court"because it's so unpopular.
The JCN president argued there's a false narrative that suggests justices do not adhere to ethical guidelines, saying that justices"still do have recusal requirements in and they still do abide by them." Since the
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