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ck4829

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Sun May 24, 2026, 12:25 PM 4 hrs ago

Supreme Court Corruption Crisis - Subcommittee Ranking Member Johnson's Opening Statement at Hearing on How Republican

Subcommittee Ranking Member Johnson’s Opening Statement at Hearing on How Republican Corruption and Extremism Broke the Supreme Court

Washington, D.C. (May 21, 2026)—Today, Rep. Hank Johnson, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet, delivered opening remarks at a subcommittee hearing condemning the decades of right-wing politicization, corruption and dark money that have led Americans to lose trust in the Supreme Court.

Below are Ranking Member Johnson’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, at today’s hearing.

For decades, MAGA Republicans have systematically chipped away at the impartiality of our third branch. They have already delegitimized our judiciary, yet they now stand before the American people pretending to be guardians of judicial integrity.

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Nowhere is the success of this decades-long effort more visible than at the Supreme Court, where a carefully appointed conservative supermajority now delivers the conservative outcomes this movement spent billions of dollars to achieve. And achieve they did.


https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/subcommittee-ranking-member-johnson-s-opening-statement-at-hearing-on-how-republican-corruption-and-extremism-broke-the-supreme-court
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Supreme Court Corruption Crisis - Subcommittee Ranking Member Johnson's Opening Statement at Hearing on How Republican (Original Post) ck4829 4 hrs ago OP
And I would like to point out that many of us wanted to expand the Supreme Court, but some of our democratic SWBTATTReg 2 hrs ago #1

SWBTATTReg

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1. And I would like to point out that many of us wanted to expand the Supreme Court, but some of our democratic
Sun May 24, 2026, 02:54 PM
2 hrs ago

leaders didn't feel like it was needed.

I've got to sarcastically thank these people, since we're having some long-term decisions overruled over last several years.

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