‘We Know Who Alito Is’: After Oversight Fight, Crockett Touts Court Reform
Democrats have created a task force to push new measures
Her national profile may have been heightened thanks to recent antics by a far-right MAGA Republican, but Rep Jasmine Crockett is still all-business.
The Texas Democrat is touting Democratic efforts to reform the US Supreme Court in the wake of revelations that Justice Samuel Alito has been flying flags associated with far-right and insurrectionist causes.
Crockett made headlines last week with her barbed comeback (“bleach blonde, bad-built, butch body”) after Republican Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene attacked Crockett for her personal appearance during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee.
But now Crockett is focused on the nation’ highest court, where an upside-down American flag was flown at Alito’s home in Virginia — a sign associated with the January 6, 2021, insurrectionists — and an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, which is known as an appeal for a more-explicitly Christian government in the United States.
US judges — including Supreme Court justices — are expected to be impartial and non-political.
When news broke about the first flag at his home, Alito blamed it on his wife.
Crockett is one of dozens of Democratic lawmakers calling for Alito to recuse himself from cases involving the insurrection and Donald Trump coming before the Supreme Court.
“We are not going to play with this. We know who Alito is. He tries to hide behind his wife, but we know who he is; he has nothing to say about the second incident,” Crockett said.
She is touting the recent formation of the Court Reform Now Task Force, which she established with several other House Democrats.
The task force will be utilized as a platform to increase awareness and elevate debate around key pieces of court reform legislation to fix and rebalance the court: The Judiciary Act to expand the Supreme Court, Supreme Court Ethics, Transparency & Recusal Act (SCERT) to require a binding code of ethics and transparency measures for justices, and the TERM Act setting term limits for justices.
“I had my little drama that happened, in Oversight, unfortunately what wasn’t covered is the task force was rolled out the same week and in that task force we have three major things that we are looking at: Number one, term limits: no more than 18 years,” Crockett said Saturday in an appearance on MSNBC. “We are also looking at a expanding the court, because we know right now that we literally cannot trust these folk. And the last thing we are looking at is making sure there is some actual ethics reform, so we have three bills we are pushing forward with.
“We are trying to educate the rest of our colleagues on it, and we are hopefully trying to get some movement in the House,” she added. And we pray about the Senate.”
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