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Richard Blumenthal: “The justice is saying nobody can tell us what to do about…”

Featuring: Richard Blumenthal, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal Discusses Supreme Court Reforms and Ethics on Defending Democracy Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 15:22

The Judicial Conference is created by who? The United States Congress. The Judicial Conference imposes rules on the judges, and so do we through jurisdictional requirements. So there is an interplay here. And The justice is saying nobody can tell us what to do about anything is simply dead wrong. And I think it's a real discredit to the Court. I thought that the Chief justice did a real disservice to the Court. (15:22–15:29)

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Asserts that the Supreme Court's claim of complete autonomy is incorrect.

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