[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 188 (Tuesday, November 14, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5482-S5483]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           U.S. SUPREME COURT

  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, yesterday, the Supreme Court 
announced its adoption of a code of ethics. The Court produced the code 
internally and adopted it unanimously. In

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other words, as I expected, a coequal branch of government conducted 
its business independently, which sounds an awful lot like the 
separation of powers envisioned in the Constitution.
  Certainly, that hasn't deterred Senate Democrats from their obsessive 
effort to bend the Court to their will. In fact, their monthslong smear 
campaign--disguised as an effort to make the senior-most jurists in the 
country, duly confirmed by the Senate, more ``accountable'' to the 
American people--unfortunately, continues apace. We know what our 
colleagues really mean by ``accountability.'' It is code for 
``intimidation.''
  I am sure that this sort of accountability is exactly what the 
Justices and their families felt as the Biden administration declined 
to enforce Federal law and protect them in their homes from angry mobs 
or when Senate Democrats threatened to slash the Court security budget 
in the face of death threats or on any number of occasions when our 
colleagues have issued ominous, veiled warnings about ``restructuring'' 
or outright threats that Justices would ``pay the price.''
  This week, Democrats on the Judiciary Committee are at it again. Our 
colleagues planned last week to threaten legal action against private 
citizens who decline to indulge their sham trial of the Justices. The 
only problem? Republicans on the committee submitted too many 
commonsense amendments, and the majority worried that some of them 
might pass with bipartisan support.
  But regardless of how Senate Democrats choose to spend their time, I 
will repeat what I have said before: I have the utmost confidence in 
each one of the Justices of our Nation's highest Court, and they should 
continue to pay this intimidation campaign no mind.

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