The War on the Supreme Court – by Erick-Woods Erickson
Conservative members of the Supreme Court have recently faced a barrage of attacks from press outlets working in conjunction with left-leaning interest groups over the past month. They have attacked Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and John Roberts wife. Every single story has omitted key details or gotten basic facts wrong. For example, stories misrepresented Neil Gorsuch s sale of property to turn a non-scandal into scandal. They also confused an LLC for an LLP and claimed Clarence Thomas had not filed paperwork that he had filed. Each of these attacks is not just revenge for the Court getting rid of Roe. They are trying to rough up the Justices by scaring them into restraint.
The last thing like this I remember (though barely) was the various attempts to impeach Earl Warren. But those efforts were legitimate in the sense that they were trying to invoke an actual constitutional procedure. This intimidation campaign strikes me as completely extra-constitutional. It’s a bad sign.