It doesn’t hurt that the highest-profile reports about potential ethical liabilities at the court touch on two conservative justices – Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. Why they want the doomed vote: As we reported this week, 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. “And anybody who disagrees with that proposition should be held accountable” themselves. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said in an interview. “The American people deserve to have all members of the judiciary… accountable to some kind of ethical standards,” Sen. Schumer sounds interested in pressing the matter, too.

They said they’re itching to force Republicans to reject the ethics measure - and pay the political price of that vote. Any action beyond that would be a waste of time, the thinking goes, since it’s all but guaranteed to be filibustered.īut in interviews with your Huddle host, a dozen of Schumer’s Democrats challenged that conventional wisdom. Washington is betting that the proposal won’t go further than the Judiciary Committee, which cleared it along party lines Thursday. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) 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. | Mariam Zuhaib/AP PhotoĭEMS TO SCHUMER: FORCE GOP TO FILIBUSTER SCOTUS ETHICS REFORM Richard Blumenthal is among the Democratic lawmakers eager to put their GOP colleagues on the record with a floor vote on ethics reforms for the Supreme Court.

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