Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: 'Supreme Court Can Police Itself'

Source:Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican, Kentucky) arguing that a very friendly U.S. Supreme Court to Republicans, can police itself.

"McConnell: Supreme Court Can Police Itself. No Appeal To Heaven Required. U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding the Supreme Court." 

From the Senate Republican Leader

I guess there are a few points here that Minority Leader McConnell made that I feel the need to push back on. 

The U.S. Supreme Court doesn't have the sole responsibility to police itself. It can't even fund itself. Congress has jurisdiction over the Supreme Court when it comes to both the oversight of the Court and its appropriations. Congress by statue can reform the Court and even expand it, if the Senate and the House agree to do just that and the President signs that into law. 

But Mitch McConnell already knows this because he's been in the Senate since 1985 and has been the Republican Leader since 2007, was the Assistant Majority Leader from 2003-07, was a member of the Judiciary Committee, and is also a lawyer, was a judge in Kentucky before getting elected to the Senate in 1984

But I also want to give you a hypothetical: 

Imagine if then President Trump was narrowly reelected in 2020. (I know, that would've been a nightmare for half of the country) Let's say he pulled out Pennsylvania and Michigan, made an amazing comeback in Georgia and Arizona, and then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer decided to accept those results and whip the voters in place to certify the election for President Trump in Congress. 

But then ANTIA or Black Lives Matter, the so-called Congressional Progressive Caucus, the so-called Squad in the House, ANTIFA, Black Lives Matter, every left-wing, militant group that you can come up with, just went nuts over that. And Joe Biden and company organized an attempted insurrection and coup attempt on Capitol Hill to prevent Congress from certifying the election result in January, 2021. 

And 3 and 1/2 years later, you have a law that was used by the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute and convict those militants and get those convictions, being challenged at the Supreme Court. But then a story appears in The Washington Post or Washington Times, about Justice Sonia Sotomayor, having an ANTIA or Black Lives Matter flag at her home. And she blames that on her husband and refuses to recuse herself from that case. Even though some of the militants whose case are at the Court, are ANTIFA or Black Lives Matters members. What would be Mitch McConnell's reaction to that? I think it's obvious that he would either ignore the story, or of course call for Justice Sotomayor to recuse herself from that case. 

Hypocrisy in Washington, especially in Congress, is like the hot air, the heat and humidity in Washington in the late spring and summer that we get every year. You can't run away from it. You almost have to accept it and tolerate it. Or find somewhere else to live. 

But when one of the biggest hypocrites in all of Washington, one of the biggest cities in America and one of the biggest hypocrites in the entire Congress, (which is why I'm amazed that MAGA doesn't love Mitch McConnell) tries to lecture the other side about what's proper, you have to point it out. Just for no other reason that the American people get another look at who leads them in Washington. 

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