Republican senators accused Democrats on Tuesday of attempting to hold back funding for Supreme Court security in exchange for implementing a code of ethics.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Supreme Court ethics reform on Tuesday, Republicans, including Sen. Ted Cruz (TX), accused Democratic colleagues of “threatening to cut off the funding for security at the Supreme Court” if the justices did not agree to come up with a novel code of conduct to govern themselves.
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Now Democrats threaten to cut off security funding for Supreme Court — unless the Justices do what Dems want. This is AFTER an assassin tried to kill Justice Kavanaugh. Talk about threatening the rule of law pic.twitter.com/5HmtxV23FW— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) May 2, 2023

Cruz claimed the Democrats’ condition was striking given that Justice Samuel Alito suggested in a recent Wall Street Journal interview that attacks on the Supreme Court’s legitimacy are making them “targets of assassination.”
“The threat is, ‘We will deny you security unless you do what we want. We will deny you security unless you do what w …