(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has pushed back against Senate Democrats’ alleged plot to exert control over the court’s decisions, asserting that “Congress did not create the Supreme Court” and that its authority cannot be regulated by the legislative branch.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Alito expressed his frustration with the misrepresentation he has faced in the past year and his belief that judges and justices should typically remain mute.
“I marvel at all the nonsense that has been written about me in the last year,” Alito told the Journal.
He emphasized that the traditional expectation for judges to remain silent on controversial matters has been largely replaced by a lack of defense from the legal community, leaving him with no choice but to speak out in his own defense.
“[T]he traditional idea about how judges and justices should behave is they should be mute, Alito said, adding that the “organized bar” should defend justices and judges. “But that’s just not happening. And so at a certain point I’ve said to myself, nobody else is going to do this, so I have to defend myself,” Alito stated.
Asserting the origin of the court’s authority, Alito stated, “Congress did not create the Supreme Court,” the Constitution did. He added, “I know this is a controversial view, but I’m willing to say it. No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court—period.”
“No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court—period,” Alito said.
Alito’s comments came in response to the Senate Democrats pushing legislation aimed at controlling how the court decides cases and whether they should recuse from specific cases.
Democrats, for the most part, have relied on hit pieces published by leftist organizations, like the infamous ProPublica, which has unleashed dubious articles against the conservative justices in the court.
