Josh Hammer exposes the left’s disinformation campaign against the Supreme Court.

The Left’s Disinformation Campaign Against the Supreme Court

Over the past five weeks, there has been a coordinated media attack against the right-of-center U.S. Supreme Court. The Democrat-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee even held a hearing on “ethics reform” despite the glaring factual omissions and misrepresentations in the hit pieces. The goal of this disinformation campaign is to delegitimize the Supreme Court and pave the way for ruinous policies that would irreparably damage the institution.

The Facts

• ProPublica published pieces alleging ethical improprieties regarding Justice Clarence Thomas’ friendship with billionaire real estate tycoon Harlan Crow, but there is nothing wrong with a Supreme Court justice having a long-running friendship with a wealthy political activist.
• Politico alleged a conflict of interest for Justice Neil Gorsuch in an old real estate transaction, but his stake in the underlying Colorado property was via a LLC, so he did not skirt any mandatory disclosure rules.
• Business Insider relied on a “whistleblower” to allege corruption on the part of Jane Roberts, the wife of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, due to her being a well-compensated legal recruiter, but prominent legal recruiters can rake in lucrative commissions.
• The New York Times ran a lengthy and meandering front-page story about the at-times coziness between George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and some of the Court’s right-of-center justices, but it is little more than a pitiful lament that the Left does not unilaterally control every single top-50 law school in America.

The disinformation operation is a big, crass intimidation tactic to browbeat the justices into ruling the Left’s way in this term’s marquee cases. The end goal is to pack the court with liberal justices and destroy the institution.

Defending the Supreme Court

It is necessary for those of us who can speak up to defend the integrity, independence, and institutional durability of the Supreme Court. The Democrat-media complex’s disinformation operation must fail miserably.

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