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Hypocritic Oath of the Senate
Imagine that deep in the bowels of the Senate building, a group of Democrat Senators has ensconced itself quietly around a well-worn, chipped oak table. They speak in whispers, even though they are certain that no one can hear them. And they pledge themselves by a “hypocritic” oath that they will do everything in their power to discredit, disempower and defame the Supreme Court of the United States. Quiet snickers ensue, as someone mutters that they are fortunate no one is studying their ethical records. They stand up, scraping their chairs across the hardwood floor. There are no friendly good-byes as they leave, only the clearing of throats and downcast eyes.
At some level, they know that the Supreme Court Justices are not the people who are threatening our democracy.
The hypocrisy of the Democrat Senators to stand in judgment of the conservative members of the Supreme Court is ludicrous. Questionable if not outright illegal activities by some Senators, including Dick Durbin, head of the Judiciary Committee, Sheldon Whitehouse, Dianne Feinstein, Richard Blumenthal are ignored. In fact, there have been no disciplinary sanctions from the Senate Select Committee on Ethics since 2007. Senators lack any credibility to sit in judgment of the Supreme Court.
More than that, they are trying to destroy the reputations of the conservative members of SCOTUS; recent investigations of Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Neil Gorsuch have not only been sloppy but dishonest and misleading:
‘The truth is the left simply disagrees with [Thomas’s] decisions and with the decisions of our current Supreme Court,’ Republican Sen. Mike Lee said at the hearing. ‘And they obviously can’t persuade the American people to adopt their radical policies through legislation, so they’re attempting to destroy the court’s credibility and intimidate the Republican-appointed justices and their families. Starting with Justice Thomas, they’re making clear that justices who disagree with them will pay a price.’
Yet Leftist Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson have both edited their own financial statements without any comment from a Senate member.
But perhaps the most outrageous actions by the Senate are the effort to make demands of SCOTUS, a co-equal branch of government. Those demands are unconstitutional:
As several Republican congressmen and at least two witnesses, including former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, noted during the hearing, the Supreme Court is ‘solely responsible for its financial disclosure and ethics rules.’
The Democrats have been relentless in their targeting the Supreme Court, in particular the conservative Justices. Those SCOTUS members have been harangued (Kavanaugh at his Senate hearings and by Senator Chuck Schumer), threatened (as Alito says the justices have been receiving death threats following the court leak on Dobbs), tolerated protests at their homes, and endured efforts to discredit them (as mentioned, Thomas and Gorsuch); count on more attacks to come. And yet the Senate has no power, except to defame, lie about and harass the Justices, just because they don’t like their rulings. Whether their claims are legitimate or not, the public will be influenced in their beliefs about the Supreme Court:
After years of slandering members of the court for the purpose of delegitimizing them, Democrats will bring up the fact that the polls show a diminishing trust in the Supreme Court as if it happened in a vacuum or as if they did not intend for this to happen. This is their doing. They are the ones creating the perception of corruption where there is none. And why? Because the Constitution is a hindrance to their agenda. It’s that simple.
So I ask you: who is the real threat to democracy, or more accurately, our democratic republic?
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I assume that you caught the play on words, “Hypocritic Oath” and “Hippocratic Oath.” The irony is that the latter states, “Do No Harm,” and the former could be described to mean, “Do As Much Harm as Possible.”
They may not be a threat to democracy, but they are definitely a threat to this Constitutional Republic. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep discussing what is for dinner. Your larger point is well taken. The left and democrats don’t believe in democracy either for them the only legitimate democracy is one that ratifies their rule.
Yes indeed. It doesn’t matter to them what is lost in the process, but only what they can gain. Thanks, Raxxalan.
Apparently, in a statement from the court to Senator Durbin, all nine Supreme Court justices reject Democrat plans for more ethics restrictions on the justices.
Yep! They’ve already committed to their own ethics agreement, thank you very much! But I expect the Dems will keep trying.
I have no respect for those Dem Senators.
If at all possible, you’ll have even less respect for them after reading this. It seems Senate Dems are looking to eliminate funding for security of the Supreme Court if the Court doesn’t bow to their wishes on the phony ethics issue.
Ah, blackmail. Great.
You meant to say “Dim”, right?
I hate to say this because it ascribes absolutely terrible motives to the democratic senators, but I suspect they would be okay with some supreme court assassinations. I mean they would be publicly horrified, but It would mean they could move the court back to the left.
It frightens me to think you’re right, but I think there is some truth to what you say, Raxxalan. When people allow groups like Antifa to inflict violence on others (except, of course, Antifa doesn’t exist), it’s not hard to imagine just hitting a person a little too hard in the head or bludgeoning someone to death. And of course, the Dems would publicly grieve the loss. . .
In Judaism we say, too, that destroying a person’s reputation is like committing murder . . .
The attacks on the Court are all about the Dems no longer having a solid majority of Justices in their back pocket. They couldn’t sink the Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, or Barrett nominations, so they immediately started in on Clarence Thomas by attacking his wife. Now, of course, they’re openly attacking Thomas and Gorsuch. And then there are the ongoing protests that the Dems are perfectly okay with.
They say it’s about ethics. What it’s really about is power and their grasping for it.
I wish I could go back to a point where this was unthinkable, but I can’t anymore. The democratic party is not just wrong anymore they have moved into a point where they are actively promoting evil. I get that people don’t want to believe this, but the establishment types better wake up. These people really do want to crush us under their boot heel.
In a modest sized county in Indiana [which produced Mayor Pete and Justice Amy Coney Barrett] the Democrats have followed the example of national leaders and are now creating media-friendly protests outside the homes of recently elected members of the County Council. These events are organized by one of the defeated Democrat candidates, along with a local BLM leader.
They certainly seem willing to take the risk of letting it happen. And if it does, they will spend the next ten years blaming the right, like they did when a leftist/Marxist shot John F. Kennedy. The shooting was probably not because of Kennedy’s politics, but just to show his wife and the world how important he was. But he was a hardcore leftist/Marxist for whom the Soviets weren’t hardcore enough. So, naturally, the rightwingers were to blame.
I was thinking they would blame the gun, but you are right that is the pattern as well.
To nit-pick… Dem refers to Democrats. Dim could refer to either party
@susanquinn
I considered upgrading the congressional swearing-in oath as applied to race relations. But the upgrade can be extended to other facets of congressional misbehavior.
https://ricochet.com/1442363/the-taking-of-oaths/ @michaelgallagher
@raxxalan
It is perfectly acceptable to ascribe terrible motives to Demomarxist Senators and to all levels of the Democratic Party from Presidentish Biden down to the local dog catcher. This is because they really are awful people of a distinctly Marxist/nihilist bent whose goal is to destroy the society that mistakenly nurtured them. So, go ahead and condemn as much as you want. But if the Dems keep the White House and Senate in 2024, people are going to have to think about going beyond mere condemnation.
Never forget that Marxists see the end of the way of life you prefer as inevitable, and themselves as the instruments of that inevitability. If you do not resist them at every turn, your way of life is doomed.