The Smearing of Clarence Thomas – WSJ

The liberal press pardon the redundancy has climbed onto its ethical high horse and is demanding reform at the Court. All of this needs robust investigation, demanded Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin dutifully saluted upon Mr. Whitehouse s order and said his committee will act to impose a new enforceable code of conduct for the Court.

This ethics talk is really about setting up an apparatus that politicians can then use against the Justices if there is any transgression, however minor or inadvertent. The claims of corruption are intended to smear the conservative Justices and tarnish the Court to tee up case recusals, impeachment or a Court-packing scheme if Democrats get enough Senate votes to break the filibuster.

It s all ugly politics, but the left is furious it lost control of the Court, and it wants it back by whatever means possible.

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