Democrats Are Planning A 1/6 Committee Style Investigation Into The Supreme Court

House and Senate Democrats are laying the groundwork for a 1/6 Committee style investigation into Supreme Court corruption that would hit the ground running if Democrats take back the House.

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Democrats Are Laying The Foundation For A Massive Supreme Court Investigation

One of the problems with Democrats losing the House majority in the 2022 midterm elections was that it took away their power to conduct deep investigations and oversight.

In the House, the majority can conduct oversight without needing minority party support. As the nation has witnessed with James Comer and Jim Jordan’s investigations into President Biden, the House majority has immense power.

The Senate is a different animal, built on consensus. Senate Democrats can launch investigations and hold committee hearings, but due to the 60-vote rule in the Senate, Democrats need the support of Republicans to conduct any investigation that has teeth.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has been one of the few members of Congress who has consistently sounded the alarm about Supreme Court corruption for years, and he isn’t letting the Senate's limitations stop him from planning a massive investigation.

Sen. Whitehouse (D-RI) said when asked on MSNBC when subpoenas would be issued for Supreme Court justices:

Here's what I think is our best chance of that and that is to win the House in November because we're not gonna win more than 60 Democrats in the Senate. So the Republicans are going to filibuster, they've already said that they're going to filibuster any effort to enforce Senate subpoenas.

So we're laying the groundwork, we're actually talking to our House coordinates so that if they win in November, they can start the process of teeing up like a January 6th commission, a full-fledged investigative commission to look at this long, long pattern of Supreme Court mischief and packing of the court.

So that in January, they get off to a strong, fast start and could do things like do a proper weeks-long deposition and debrief of Leonard Leo, who has been the functionary in the middle of this whole scheme. He has a lot to tell; the Republican senators are blocking us, but the senators can't block a House subpoena.

Video of Sen. Whitehouse:

The nation needs a 1/6 Committee-style investigation, and as we will discuss below, the consequences of such an investigation could end the corruption crisis in the Supreme Court.