A dozen Democrats said they’re itching to force Republicans to reject the ethics measure — and pay the political price of that vote.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer , right, speaks as Sen. Debbie Stabenow, , listens, July 11, 2023, in Washington. | Mariam Zuhaib/AP PhotoSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has yet to say how he’ll approach his party’s Supreme Court ethics legislation — a historic bid to check the high court after reports of ethically questionable behavior among its justices. But lawmakers in his Senate Democratic caucus are eager to put their Republican colleagues on the record with a floor vote.
Washington is betting that the proposal won’t go further than the Judiciary Committee, which cleared it. Any action beyond that would be a waste of time, the thinking goes, since it’s all but guaranteed to be filibustered and would be dead on arrival in the GOP-controlled House. But in interviews with your Huddle host, a dozen of Schumer’s Democrats challenged that conventional wisdom.
“The American people deserve to have all members of the judiciary … accountable to some kind of ethical standards,” Sen. said in an interview. “And anybody who disagrees with that proposition should be held accountable” themselves.that Democrats are betting that a Senate focus on Supreme Court ethics will help them remind voters of its recent flurry of conservative rulings, even after the justices’ term is over for the year.
Democrats also think the added national visibility that accompanies a floor vote might pressure the Supreme Court into setting its own stricter rules as confidence in the institution“I would hope that we would bring it to the floor, because I think it [makes] it more likely that the Supreme Court might act,” Sen. Ben Cardin said.Schumer pushed doomed floor votes last year on issues like
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