Senate Democrats moved earlier this year to create a new set of ethical standards for Supreme Court justices known as the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act.

Yet as the Washington Examiner noted, two prominent Republicans made clear at a press conference on Thursday that the legislation has been killed.

Bill said to be as "dead as fried chicken"

Louisiana Republican Sen. John serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and he was quoted as saying, "This bill is dead as fried chicken."

"It's going to get out of committee. It doesn't have 60 votes in the Senate. And it sure can't pass the House. So why do it?" Kennedy asked.

Why beat the living crap out of the United States Supreme Court? I just don't get it. I understand politics, but I just don't get it."

KENNEDY: Democrats’ SCOTUS Ethics Bill “is dead as fried chicken!” pic.twitter.com/aVrC5xxy26

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 19, 2023

Proposed rule change came following report on Justice Clarence Thomas

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz was at the press conference as well, and he quipped that Kennedy would buy fried chicken for any reporter who used the phrase.

The Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act was proposed by Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon White House after the left-wing outlet ProPublica reported that Justice Clarence Thomas took expense trips with conservative mega donor Harlan Crow. 

While Democrats slammed Thomas for taking expensive vacations with Crow, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham pointed out that they raised no objections when the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg engaged in questionable behavior.

Among the examples that Graham cited was Ginsburg's acceptance in 2019 of a $1 million award for an organization of her choosing.

Ginsburg donated a signed copy of her ruling to pro-abortion group

Neither did Democrats voice concern in 1998 when she donated a signed copy of one of her decisions to the pro-abortion National Organization for Women so it could auction off the document at a political fundraiser.

Here’s pro-abortion @NationalNOW 1998 auction list, item 49, RBG autographed copy of her VMI opinion. As @LindseyGrahamSC said, imagine if Justice Alito donated signed Dobbs opinion to @SBAprolife?? But crickets from the Left on RBG’s conduct. @SenJudiciaryGOP pic.twitter.com/OhFmacJV9c

— Mark Paoletta (@MarkPaoletta) May 2, 2023

Graham went on to accuse his Democratic colleagues of hypocrisy, suggesting that they would not be so tolerant if Justice Samuel Alito wanted to donate one of his rulings to a pro-life group.