August 3, 2023 11:29am EDT
Top Democrat tries to school Justice Alito in growing tiff over Supreme Court oversight
Justice Samuel Alito says the Constitution gives no authority to Congress to regulate the Supreme Court
By Brianna Herlihy | Fox News
A top Senate Democrat blasted Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for expressing his views on a controversial bill to institute a mandatory code of conduct on the nation's highest tribunal.
"Let’s be clear: Justice Alito is not the 101st member of the United States Senate. His intervention in Article I activity is unwise and unwelcome," Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said in a statement Wednesday.
Durbin's comments come as a direct response to Alito, who in a recent Wall Street Journal interview criticized a new bill pushed by Durbin and his Democrat colleagues that would impose new ethics rules on the justices.
"Congress did not create the Supreme Court," Alito told the Journal, adding that the Constitution did.
"I know this is a controversial view, but I’m willing to say it," he said. "No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court — period," he added.
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