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Floor Speech

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Mr. LEE. While no system run by fallible, mortal human beings can be described as perfect, ours is as good a system as has ever existed in the world and certainly as good as any that exists in the world today. But the capstone of that is an entity that exists by virtue, by operation of the Constitution--the Supreme Court of the United States.

This solution--a solution that is being rammed through today--this is a solution in search of a problem that would itself create another problem for which there would be no solution. That problem would, in turn, turn one of our greatest strengths--an independent, functioning judicial system, one that has preserved the rule of law in this country for nearly 2\1/2\ centuries--into something, a more political animal. It is not what we wanted. It is not what the Constitution contemplates. It is not what we benefited from.

And why? We must ask the question why. Is there any great moral offense that has been committed? No. Is there any grave violation of law that has been committed? No. Is there any violation of law that has been committed at all? No, there is not.

What we have here is something very, very cynical, and what we have is that people on the left have a couple of cases currently pending before the Supreme Court of the United States--cases that they are worried about the outcome, cases in which they are worried that certain Justices might rule against them. And they have some Justices they don't like. They have some Justices that they worry are going to reject the bad arguments that they have made in those cases. So rather than double down on making sure that their arguments are good and that they are persuasive and recognizing that they are not going to win all cases, they are threatening, they are intimidating the Justices.

They are making--it is not just a mountain out of a molehill; they are making a mountain out of nothing. They are doing this specifically to harass, threaten, and intimidate certain members of the Supreme Court in order to influence the outcome of pending litigation. Make no mistake, that is what is going on here. They are trying to trigger more recusals--recusals of those Justices they don't like.

The legislation they are offering would create more problems in this, would make it easier for them to trigger more recusals.

This is not a good outcome. This is a political effort to influence the resolution of pending litigation before the Supreme Court of the United States and to threaten Justices that don't toe the woke line.

I withhold my objection at this moment.

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