'All hell would break loose': Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham highlighted multiple instances of what he claimed was bias against conservative Supreme Court justices during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, arguing that the hearing was a partisan attempt to “destroy the legitimacy” of the Supreme Court. The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Supreme Court ethics was initially prompted by a ProPublica report alleging that Justice Clarence Thomas violated ethics rules by not disclosing expense-paid vacations he took with his friend Harlan Crow, a billionaire real estate developer.