Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas, who announced her bid for Senate on Monday, argued on "The Joy Reid Show" that the Senate needs to impose "ethical guidelines" on the Supreme Court, adding that if that fails, Congress should "have a little conversation with the justices."
"The only body that has oversight over the Supreme Court is the United States Senate," Crockett told Reid. "So, ultimately, when it comes down to whether or not they have to finally have some ethics about themselves, because they are the only justices in this country that do not have any ethical guidelines — or whether it is literally that we just are bringing them in, and we are going to have a little conversation with the justices."
She further accused the Supreme Court of "minimiz[ing] the voices" of minorities, adding that the recent decision allowing Texas to use its redistricted Congressional map disproportionately underrepresents minorities.
Jasmine Crockett says SCOTUS "minimize[d] the voices" of minorities, and "African American voices are only 1/5 the voting strength of their Anglo-Texans...Latino voices are only 1/3."
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She then warns there must be "RETRIBUTION" for what SCOTUS has done.
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She argued that the Senate should use its oversight as leverage when dealing with the Court, especially when confirming justices or deciding "if we're going to expand the court."
She went on to float the idea that Democrats should "change the Senate map," and asserted that "no matter how bad they make these maps, we are going to flip the House." However, she questioned "what good is flipping the House if the only thing that we're doing is shine a light on all the bad that is being done?"
The only way that you don't know what's being done is if you're just not paying attention. It is clear that they are criminals. It is clear that they have killed people. It is clear that they don't give a damn about the people that actually voted for them. All of this stuff is clear, but ultimately, how do you get some accountability? So, let's pass a million bills out of the House. But if we don't have the numbers in the Senate, then those bills die.
Crockett’s pitch ultimately boils down to control of power: Democrats must reshape the Senate, expand their majority, and use oversight as a weapon against the Supreme Court.
