Attack on Supreme Court s legitimacy continues
Friday, May 21, 2021 |
Chris Woodward (OneNewsNow.com)
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The meeting was brief and nothing was decided, but commissioners plan to gather again soon to discuss topics like the membership and size of the court.
The idea of adding justices has been gaining steam in recent months, due in part to liberal objections to the justices nominated by President Trump. But Ashley Baker, director of public policy at the Committee for Justice, thinks adding justices is a bad idea. It s a big reversal from Biden, notes Baker. In 1983, Joe Biden said packing the court was a terrible idea, then Justice [Ruth] Ginsburg said packing the Court was a bad idea. Now Justice [Stephen] Breyer is saying the same thing.
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The Declaration of Independence cataloged the ways in which King George III infringed upon American liberties. Among King George’s offenses listed in the Declaration was “Transporting us beyond the Seas to be tried for pretended Offences.” The king claimed the authority to seize American colonists and force them to stand trial in Great Britain for criminal offenses allegedly committed in America.
Almost 250 years later, another foreign tribunal the International Criminal Court (ICC), located in The Hague in the Netherlands is working toward issuing arrest warrants for American citizens for allegedly abusing detainees in Afghanistan. The court is pursuing this course despite the fact that the United States is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and therefore not subject to the ICC’s jurisdiction.
May 14, 2021 3:07 p.m.
Senate Democrats, in a letter Friday to Attorney General Merrick Garland, weighed in on a judge’s recent opinion accusing the Trump-era Justice Department of misleading her about the purpose of an internal memo related to the Mueller probe.
“To be clear, these misrepresentations preceded your confirmation as Attorney General, but the Department you now lead bears responsibility for redressing them,” the Democrats, all members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said.
They asked Garland not to appeal the judge’s ruling, which ordered the department to release currently-redacted portions of a memo ostensibly advising then Attorney General Barr on whether to prosecute President Trump based on what was described in the Special Counsel report.
05.14.21
Senate Judiciary Democrats to AG Garland: In order to help rebuild nation’s trust in DOJ’s independence after four years of turmoil, we urge DOJ not to appeal decision to order the release of memo written to downplay Trump’s obstruction of Mueller’s investigation
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights; and U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee; today led Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland expressing serious concerns about the Trump-era Department of Justice’s (DOJ) apparent misrepresentations to a federal court regarding an Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memorandum that was written to downplay President Trump’s obstruction of Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation. In their letter, the Senators urged DOJ to not appeal D.C. Dist