Senate Leftists were so proud of the results of their 20-month-long “investigation” into what they wanted everyone to believe was an “ethical crisis” at the Supreme Court (sarc) they buried their report on its findings by making it public on the Friday afternoon before Christmas.
This from washingtonexaminer.com.
As planned, it made little news—it is an utterly meatless document and its wording is so flimsy it is embarrassing for anyone connected to it.
The reality is the Senate communists/globalists have not investigated an ethical crisis at the Supreme Court so much as they have been trying to manufacture a scandal that does not bear scrutiny. As the results of the election this past November have shown, Senate communists/globalists failed miserably.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (C/G-IL) said in a statement:
Now more than ever before, as a result of information gathered by subpoenas, we know the extent to which the Supreme Court is mired in an ethical crisis of its own making.
It’s clear that the justices are losing the trust of the American people at the hands of a gaggle of fawning billionaires.
Yes, Dickie Durbin is right “we know the extent” to which the court is mired, and the extent is not at all.
Overall approval of the Supreme Court has fallen from a high of 58% as recently as July 2020 to just 43% today, but that fall is entirely due to the propaganda campaign against the justices and is confined exclusively to communist/globalist partisans. Among the Left, 56% approved of the Court in 2020, and only 15% approve of it today. Independent voter approval of the court, at 44%, is up from a low of 36% two years ago.
What discredited the Supreme Court in the eyes of the Left was not the phony ethics complaints from Senate communists/globalists but the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, “which overturned the invented constitutional right to abortion contained in Roe v. Wade.” Before that decision, 56% of The Left approved of the Supreme Court, which fell to 13% after Dobbs.
It is precisely because of the likelihood that single cases could produce wild swings in public opinion that the authors of the Constitution isolated the judicial branch from political pressure by giving justices lifetime tenure.
Durbin and his Leftist allies in the Senate are desperately seeking to undermine and remove this protection while claiming the incoming administration is threatening constitutional government.
Durbin has always been a peculiarly unimpressive member of the Senate—it is why his colleagues passed him over for leadership and chose Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (NY) instead—and his hapless and tendentious campaign against the originalist justices demonstrates the point.
If anything, it is not right-wing dark money but the communist/globalist crime syndicate’s attack on the Supreme Court that is driven by “a gaggle of fawning billionaires,” including the Sandler Foundation and Arabella Advisors, which have funneled millions of dollars to left-wing groups bent on undermining the legitimacy of the judicial branch. These groups hoped that if Trump lost and Leftists maintained control of the Senate, they could have packed the court with new justices, negating the current justices’ jurisdiction in controversial cases.
[The Left does not] want justice or constitutional government. They want an engine of progressive change.
Fortunately, most voters saw through the Left’s nakedly dishonest attempt to turn the judicial branch into an arm of the Left and rejected both their presidential selectee and their Senate candidates at the ballot box. The lame Friday-before-Christmas release of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s pitiful work product is a fitting last gasp of this pathetic effort.
Final thought: This will not be the end of the Left’s attack on The Supreme’s. They may have lost this battle but they are already planning their next attack.
