Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Democrats’ recent attempts to undermine the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have come under concentrated attack from Democrats in recent years, with such scrutiny intensifying after the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022. In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, McConnell not only condemned the undermining of the court but connected it to a wider pattern of Democrats attempting to subvert democracy, an accusation more commonly leveled by Democrats against Republicans.
“The Constitution vests each branch of the federal government with an exclusive power, responsive to the people in elections,” he wrote. “In each branch, liberals seek to remove that power from democratic accountability and vest it in unelected bureaucrats. This practice might come from a good-faith trust in ‘experts,’ or a sincere belief that sound policy is too valuable to risk in elections. But at its core, it is a rejection of democratic accountability in favor of the administrative state.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) listens to a question from a reporter at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Earlier, three Republican senators broke from their party to support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic nomination to the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
