Jayapal: Alito, Clarence Thomas Are ‘Slashing and Burning’ the Integrity of the Supreme Court

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JAYAPAL: "I think it‘s outrageous, Anderson. This is a Supreme Court justice, the highest court of the land. He had an obligation to, I believe, recuse himself, but at a minimum to provide response to members of Congress about his actions. And he really didn‘t do that. I mean, this letter is — it‘s ridiculous on so many levels to say, 'Well, I didn‘t know about it. Then I tried to ask my wife to take down, but she wouldn‘t take it down. But hey, by the way, none of that matters.' This is a justice who is going to weigh in on cases that are about our democracy, about the former president‘s participation in an insurrection. And to say that it has no bearing that his wife was flying not just one, but two flags is — is really disturbing. The reality is, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself from a case on affirmative action in Harvard because she felt that there was a chance that it could lead to a sense of impropriety. Justice Alito and, I would say, Justice Thomas in the same category, are really slashing and burning the integrity of the Supreme Court. I think it‘s extremely troubling and it means that Justice Roberts has to step in and actually establish an enforceable mechanism to hold these justices accountable for a code of conduct that right now has no such thing."