{"id":1923647,"date":"2023-05-03T17:42:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T21:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-harsanyi-rather-than-smearing-justices-democrats-should-be-asking-them-for-ethics-lessons\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T17:45:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T21:45:51","slug":"david-harsanyi-rather-than-smearing-justices-democrats-should-be-asking-them-for-ethics-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-harsanyi-rather-than-smearing-justices-democrats-should-be-asking-them-for-ethics-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats should seek ethics lessons from justices instead of smearing them, says David Harsanyi."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdavid-harsanyi-rather-than-smearing-justices-democrats-should-be-asking-them-for-ethics-lessons%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1923647&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Media and Democrats&#8217; Attack on the Supreme Court<\/h2>\n<p>The concerted effort by the media and Democrats to delegitimize the Supreme Court is the most consequential attack on our institutions in memory. Today\u2019s \u201cSupreme Court Ethics Reform\u201d hearing is meant to discredit the high court and slander justices with innuendo. Nothing else. Democrats are angry because the court happens to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rather-than-smearing-justices-democrats-should-be-asking-them-for-ethics-lessons\/\" title=\"Democrats should seek ethics lessons from justices instead of smearing them.\">occasionally uphold basic constitutional principles<\/a> of American governance. Democrats are nervous that originalist justices are going to weaken the administrative state or hand power back to localities or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/states-move-to-shore-up-religious-freedom-in-a-post-covid-world\/\" title=\"States Move to Shore Up Religious Freedom in a Post-COVID World\">protect religious liberty<\/a> or gun rights.<\/p>\n<h3>Shoddy Hit Pieces on Justices Thomas and Gorsuch<\/h3>\n<p>The recent hit pieces on Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch were shoddy and transparently partisan. They did not uncover any conflict of interest nor corruption. They exist to give politicians fodder and hackish outlets like The Washington Post the freedom to contend that the Senate is \u201cconsider[ing] strengthening ethics rules for the Supreme Court in response to a cascade of revelations about unreported lavish travel and real estate deals.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most Post readers will, no doubt, be unaware that there has been no \u201cunreported\u201d lavish travel or real estate deals.<\/li>\n<li>There is one amended note in a financial disclosure by Thomas \u2014 who had no ethical or legal obligation to check in with Democrats whenever he travels.<\/li>\n<li>In Politico\u2019s Gorsuch hit, the reporter didn\u2019t even know how to read a basic disclosure form. Everything, including a real estate deal that Gorsuch was allegedly attempting to conceal, was reported.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The fact that the same histrionic coverage did not accompany Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s amended financial disclosures in 2022 nor Justice Sonia Sotomayor\u2019s amended financial disclosures in 2021 nor Justice Stephen Breyer\u2019s long-term travel arrangements, which were often reimbursed by the wealthy Pritzker family, is no accident.<\/p>\n<h3>Democrats&#8217; Hypocrisy on Ethics<\/h3>\n<p>The committee chair, Dick Durbin, contends he merely wants the justices to abide by the ethics rules that Congress has drafted for itself. If they did, it would mean a complete degradation of standards in the court. Because while there has not been a scintilla of evidence offered by anyone that the originalist justices have altered their judicial philosophy or approach for personal benefit, one could not say that same thing about the leader of the delegitimization effort, Durbin, who, according to a 2014 Chicago Tribune investigation, used his office and power to help enrich his lobbyist wife:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Among the areas of overlap in the Durbins\u2019 careers: her firm getting a one-year contract with a housing nonprofit group around the time the senator went to bat for the organization and others like it; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-harsanyi-rather-than-smearing-justices-democrats-should-be-asking-them-for-ethics-lessons\/\" title=\"Democrats should seek ethics lessons from justices instead of smearing them, says David Harsanyi.\">state university receiving funds earmarked<\/a> by Durbin when his wife was its lobbyist; and Durbin arranging federal money for a<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share Share Article on Facebook Share Article on Twitter Share Article on Truth Social Copy Article Link Share Article via Email The concerted effort by the media and Democrats to delegitimize the Supreme Court is the most consequential attack on our institutions in memory. \u00a0 Make no mistake. Today\u2019s \u201cSupreme Court Ethics Reform\u201d hearing is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1923648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4044,3685,4381,7637,8744,7843,4165,11526,3658],"class_list":["post-1923647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-david","tag-democrats","tag-ethics","tag-harsanyi","tag-justices","tag-lessons","tag-seek","tag-smearing","tag-them"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}