WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today led Committee Republicans in voting no on the Democrats’ so-called Supreme Court ethics bill. The bill was reported out of Committee, but does not have the sixty votes it needs to pass the U.S. Senate.

• GRAHAM: “I can assure the American people this ill-conceived effort in the name of ‘reforming the Court’ will go nowhere in the United States Senate.” https://youtu.be/EcigU0IAYYs?t=422

• GRAHAM: “The bottom line is this is a bill not designed to make the Court stronger and more ethical, it is to destroy a conservative Court. It is a bill to create a situation where conservative judges can be disqualified by statute. It is a bill to rearrange the makeup of how the Court governs itself. It is an assault on the Court itself.”   https://youtu.be/EcigU0IAYYs?t=311

• GRAHAM: “Packing the Court destroys the Court. Passing legislation to micromanage how the Court operates destroys the Court. Creating a complaint process, in the name of ethics that is designed to disqualify people that you don’t like, destroys the Court. This will not stand.” https://youtu.be/EcigU0IAYYs?t=397

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