Senator Chris Murphy has dismissed claims by the supreme court justice, Samuel Alito, that the Senate has “no authority” to create a code of conduct for the court as “stunningly wrong”.

The Connecticut Democrat made those remarks in an interview on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, adding that Alito “should know that more than anyone else because his seat on the supreme court exists only because of an act passed by Congress”.

“It is Congress that establishes the number of justices on the supreme court,” Murphy said. “It is Congress that has passed in the past requirements for justices to disclose certain information, and so it is just wrong on the facts to say that Congress doesn’t have anything to do with the rules guiding the supreme court.”

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    It’s been personal opinions for a while…

    They’re also not supposed to make laws either, but the whole “qualified immunity” thing where cops are allowed to do anything and not be held accountable was a court decision.

    They only care about the rules when it agrees with what they want.

    It’s weird seeing the SC destroyed by SC judges in my lifetime. When I was a kid everyone had such a high opinion of them

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      When I was a kid everyone had such a high opinion of them

      That depends on when you grew up. It seems from this data that the golden age of being a SCOTUS judge just was the late 80s, but any other time in recent history (prior or subsequently) the SCOTUS struggled to get even half the country to approve of them.

      It’s definitely way worse, now, though.

      Edit: Bleh, typos.