Leonard Leo, co-chairman of the Federalist Society, who was instrumental in suggesting conservative judges for former President Donald Trump to nominate to the Supreme Court, fired back at President Joe Biden after Biden published an opinion piece on Monday demanding term limits for Supreme Court justices and a “binding code of conduct for the Supreme Court.”
“Justices should be required to disclose gifts, refrain from public political activity and recuse themselves from cases in which they or their spouses have financial or other conflicts of interest,” Biden commanded.
Biden and his Democratic Party have been attacking the two most conservative justices on the court, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, claiming they have violated ethical standards. On July 10, radical leftist Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) filed articles of impeachment against Thomas and Alito, ranting, “The unchecked corruption crisis on the Supreme Court has now spiraled into a Constitutional crisis threatening American democracy writ large.”
“No conservative justice has made any decision in any big case that surprised anyone, so let’s stop pretending this is about undue influence,” Leo fired back against Biden in a statement. “It’s about Democrats destroying a court they don’t agree with.
“If President Biden and the Democrats were truly serious about ethics reform, then they would ban all gifts and hospitality of any kind to any public official in any branch of government, starting with Congress, where the real corruption is.” Leo continued. “They would close all of the loopholes that allow Members to travel on private jets to fancy hotels and restaurants.”
“With respect to judges, they would include the things where influence peddling is most present and dangerous -and that’s when the liberal Justices rub shoulders with influencers at places like law schools, bar associations, progressive think tanks and their conferences, and other groups and events funded by Left-wing billionaires, where they support real vested interests in the work of the Court,” he noted. “”Let me be clear: If Democrats want to adopt an across the board ethics ban for all branches, I am in favor of that: no jets, no meals, no speaking honorariums, no gifts for anyone from anyone for any reason in any branch, starting with Congress. Until they support that, let’s all be honest about what this is: a campaign to destroy a court that they disagree with.”
Leonard Leo’s 🔥🔥🔥 statement on the Supreme Court nonsense: pic.twitter.com/2ykTcahdpX
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) July 29, 2024
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