Instead of Smearing Justices, Senators Should Be Asking Them For Ethics Lessons
BY DAVID HARSANYI
THURSDAY, MAY 04 2023
After years of slandering members of the court for the purpose of delegitimizing them, Democrats will bring up the fact that the polls show a diminishing trust in the Supreme Court as if it happened in a vacuum or as if they did not intend for this to happen. This is their doing.
The concerted effort by the media and Democrats to delegitimize the Supreme Court is the most consequential attack on our institutions in memory.
Make no mistake. The "Supreme Court Ethics Reform" hearing this week was meant to discredit the high court and slander justices with innuendo. Nothing else. Democrats are angry because the court happens to occasionally uphold basic constitutional principles of American governance.
The recent hit pieces on Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch were shoddy and transparently partisan. They did not uncover any conflict of interest or corruption. They exist to give politicians fodder and hackish outlets like The Washington Post the freedom to contend that the Senate is "consider(ing) strengthening ethics rules for the Supreme Court in response to a cascade of revelations about unreported lavish travel and real estate deals."
Most Post readers will, no doubt, be unaware that there has been no "unreported" lavish travel or real estate deals. There is one amended note in a financial disclosure by Thomas – who had no ethical or legal obligation to check in with Democrats whenever he travels. In Politico's Gorsuch hit, the reporter didn't even know how to read a basic disclosure form. Everything, including a real estate deal that Gorsuch was allegedly attempting to conceal, was reported.
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