…the #judiciary is an equal branch of #government & congressional #Democrats have limited opportunities to enact concrete changes.…
#Republicans, who control the #House, oppose legislation to tighten ethical guidelines for the justices & have portrayed overhaul as a political effort to damage the legitimacy of a #conservative#SCOTUS that has delivered them major victories on #abortion & other issues [+ they worked decades to install this court].
Alex Aronson, exec dir of the oversight group #CourtAccountability, said in a stmnt that #Senate#Judiciary Chairman Dick #Durbin (D-IL) has taken a less confrontational approach on the ethics controversies because he has wanted to speed through the appointment of #liberal#judges to lower courts, so he has tried not to ruffle the feathers of #Republicans who could hold up that process.