Democrats are now going after the nation's highest court in their neverending quest for complete power and control. Specifically, they're going after the U.S. Supreme Court's two most conservative justices, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. Democrat lawmakers seized on a recent New York Times hit piece on Alito over flags flown outside his homes in the past that were supposedly associated with the January 6th Capitol breach. Alito denied the allegations and refused calls to recuse himself from any cases about Trump or January 6th. Last year, Democrats tried a similar move with Justice Thomas, over trips he took with a Republican donor who is also a family friend.
Unable to get Thomas or Alito off certain cases, Dems recently tried to pressure Chief Justice John Roberts to order the recusals, but he rejected their demands as well. Now, Democratic lawmakers, including Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin and Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, are calling for an outside "ethics panel" made up of federal judges to oversee the Supreme Court.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz believes this is just the latest chapter in the left's attempt to take over the Supreme Court. "This is just all about trying to delegitimize the court," Cruz recently told CNN. "Almost every Democrat in the Senate---if they win---they want to pack the Supreme Court. They want to grow the Supreme Court from nine justices to 13 justices."
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton also believes the timing of these attacks is no coincidence. "I think specifically why they're doing it now, is because the Supreme Court is considering two cases, both of which affect Donald Trump and hundreds of January 6th defendants," he told Fox News. "Both of those cases are going to come down in the next month, and I suspect the New York Times and Democrats are once again targeting Justice Alito because they want to undermine the court's credibility."
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