Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee tore into their Democrat counterparts Thursday during a hearing over their efforts to push legislation that would create an ethics code for the Supreme Court.
The Republicans took issue with Democrats’ star witness at the hearing, Rev. Rob Schenck, a former pro-life activist who claimed in a letter to the Supreme Court in June that Justice Samuel Alito leaked the decision of a key religious freedom case in 2014.in November, claimed a donor to Schenck’s organization had dinner with Alito and Alito’s wife in June 2014 and that during the dinner, Alito revealed the outcome of thecase.
Schenck for two decades directed a project called Operation Higher Court, which he described during his testimony Thursday as a Christian mission “to bolster conservative Supreme Court justices in the views they already had.” The reverend said he believed his organization “pushed the boundaries of Christian ethics and compromised the Court’s promise to administer equal justice” and added that his work was “not always transparently honest.”
Jordan further worked to discredit Schenck by highlighting a stunning inconsistency in a book Schenck authored in 2018, roughly around the same timeframe that SchenckSchenck, in the book, emphasizes a silent exchange he had with his brother Paul during Supreme Court oral arguments about a case involving Paul.
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