Tuesday, 08 October 2024

Spin Cycle: SCOTUS ‘Is Out Of Order!’


WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 07: United States Supreme Court (front row L-R) Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan, (back row L-R) Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pose for their official portrait at the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court building on October 7, 2022 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court has begun a new term after Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was officially added to the bench in September. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Alex Wong/Getty Images

For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week’s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.

Sunday’s media spin centered on the Supreme Court — specifically Friday’s 6-3 ruling that overturned a ban on bump stocks that was first issued in 2017 — and the angle was blatantly obvious. Democrat guests were brought in to complain about the ruling — and claim that the court is leaning too far to the right — and a few Republicans to push back while the hosts toed the Democrat line.

On ABC’s “This Week,” host Jonathan Karl pressed potential Trump VP pick Tim Scott to weigh in on the decision — and whether or not he would support any new action taken to ban bump stocks.

“We trust and believe and respect the decision of the Supreme Court,” Scott began, before pivoting to add, “What we need to focus on is the violence that we’re seeing across this nation. Under Joe Biden we’ve seen the greatest increase in violent crime in my lifetime. And so focusing on ways for us to reduce that crime means getting four more years of Donald Trump. Under Donald Trump we actually respected law enforcement. Under Joe Biden, we’ve seen the movement to defund the police, leaving communities like the one I grew up in devastated and ravaged by a wave of violent crime that we have not seen literally in five decades.”

On “State of the Union,” CNN anchor Jake Tapper prompted Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) — another likely Trump veepstakes contender — to weigh in on the bump stock ban reversal, and he too defended the court.

Tapper noted that the Supreme Court’s ruling had made it sound as though a majority might support a ban if it were approached through legislation rather than executive action, and then turned the question to Cotton, asking whether he would support such a move.

“First I want to make a point about the Supreme Court more broadly,” Cotton began. “For years, Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden have attacked this court because they don’t like the fact that it’s got a center-right constitutionalist majority.”

He went on to point out that for all their complaints that the court supported and deferred to former President Trump, this was a clear example of the court overturning something Trump had supported.

Tapper also spoke with Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) about the bump stock ruling, and Murphy used the opportunity to attack both Republicans and the court.

“It’s really scary that we have lost Republican support for banning machine guns,” Murphy complained in one clip.

Murphy went on to attack the court itself, claiming that it was “becoming brazenly corrupt and brazenly political” and arguing that there was “a crisis on the court,” particularly with respect to conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.

On MSNBC’s “Inside With Jen Psaki,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) picked up where Murphy left off, telling the former White House Press Secretary that Congress had to step up and rein in the court with regard to setting a strict code of ethics for the justices.

“The real problem is that there’s no binding ethics code on the Supreme Court, so the highest court in the land has the lowest ethical standards,” Raskin claimed.

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