Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said Thursday that he is concerned Congress could make decisions that affect the high court's funding.
"Congress can turn off the lights at the Supreme Court and stop everything from happening if they want to defund their activities. And there are many, many, many other things that they can do, or at least try to do," Alito said at a Federalist Society event on Thursday.
"So, it is important to preserve the independence of the judiciary," he remarked, adding that "if that is eliminated, then the Constitution as adopted in 1789 will no longer be the same."
Alito said at the event that the judiciary is the least powerful branch of the government, compared with Congress and the executive. But he still warned that judges can wield too much power and added that some lower-court judges have issued rulings blocking presidents' orders that he believes were unjustified.
"If you think about a hand grenade, a 500-pound bomb and a nuclear weapon," he said, "the hand grenade is the least dangerous. But that is not to say that it is not dangerous."
Judges can be "dedicated" and "skillful," but Alito warned, "they're not perfect, and they make mistakes."
"And in some instances, I think they have gone far astray in abuse of their powers."
Over the summer, Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett
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