Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., on Wednesday accused Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley of reaching a “new low” for attacking Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
“He has been attacked without cause by the chairman of the Judiciary Committee,” Reid said Roberts.
Grassley took a swipe at Roberts Tuesday because Roberts had previously decried that the confirmation process for Court justices had grown too political.
“He would be well served to address the reality, not the perception, that too often there is little difference between the actions of the court and the actions of the political branches,” Grassley said Tuesday. “So, physician, heal thyself.”
Reid called this comment “a new low” Wednesday, and said Grassley was trying to deflect attention from and justify his “unprecedented obstruction of President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination, Judge Merrick Garland.”
“The senior senator from Iowa had the audacity to accuse Roberts of being part of the problem, even going so far as telling the chief justice — listen to this one — ‘Physician, heal thyself,'” Reid said.
“Justice Roberts isn’t the one that needs healing. What needs mending is a Judiciary Committee under his chairmanship, which has been annexed a political arm of the Republican leader’s office,” Reid said.
Senator Grassley is “doing the bidding of the Tea Party, and of course, the Koch Brothers,” Reid said. “[Grassley] has done more to politicize the process than any chairman of the judiciary committee in the history of this country.”
