Supreme Court Corruption Crisis - Subcommittee Ranking Member Johnson's Opening Statement at Hearing on How Republican
Subcommittee Ranking Member Johnsons 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 Johnsons remarks, as prepared for delivery, at todays 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.
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