Sen. Blumenthal on Justice Alito and Supreme Court: I Could Not Be More Worried

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BLUMENTHAL: "I couldn't be more worried. And here’s the reason it goes to Michael’s point. You know, the judicial system has no armies, has no police force. Its orders are obeyed because of its credibility, because people trust it. It has squandered that trust. The ones who have squandered it most irresponsibly are the highest court justices. We’ve worked for a code of ethics, been rejected by Republicans. We’ve worked for an inspector general. My proposal is that the judicial branch have an inspector general, just like every other agency of government. The Supreme Court has no code of ethics uniquely among the branches of government. So I think it is a moment of reckoning for our democracy in a very real sense because of the trust that has been lost in our judiciary. And I think we have a bipartisan obligation, we ought to come together as Republicans and Democrats, because this issue is bigger than either party and any of us individually."