Justice Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose ethics code on Supreme Court

[Novara]

58. Now that the heat is on and we're watching, it's a lot harder to bribe SCOTUS justices

That's what Alito is pissed off about.

He's acting like a child: YOU CAN'T MAKE ME! Congress needs to act like the parent: JUST YOU WATCH ME, BUSTER.


They're all afraid and pissed off that their gravy train is done, finito, because now the entire country is watching them. It's gonna be a lot harder for the bribes to continue while the spotlight is on them.


Question for constitutional scholars: if Congress finds out they're deciding a case for one of their sugar daddies, can they intervene to stop it? I'm afraid that the SCOTUS will get much more blatant about taking cases where their sugar daddies have an interest. I understand that Congress can decide on jurisdictional matters for the court, but do they have any authority if Thomas, for example, decides they will hear a case where Harlan Crow is involved? I mean, since republicans love to do performative, in-your-face exercises of raw power, I worry that the SCOTUS will do the same. They don't have a reputation to protect anymore, so there's no reason for them to not wield power even more abusively than they are already.