You Know That None of Them Were Going to Betray Their Club; SCOTUS Ed.

The Supreme Court spoke is speaking with one voice in response to recent criticism of the justices’ ethical practices: No need to fix what isn’t broken.

Right. Thomas the Grifting Engine has been palling around with a billionaire for almost thirty years, a guy who bought up properties that were owned, in part, by Thomas in a sweetheart deal (including doing improvements to his mother's house and allowing her to life there, rent-free.) Thomas didn't report his wife's income because the forms were, oh, so complex for a trained legal scholar to figure out. Gorsuch profited from a real estate deal where property in which he had an interest was sold to the managing parter of a big-ass law firm within days of Gorsuch's confirmation to the SC. Roberts's wife may be running her own game that is arguably shady.

The Supremes are nine royal fuckwads who believe that they are accountable to nobody on this Earth whatsoever. The only tool that can be used against them is impeachment, and we all know that ain't happening. Any law that is passed to hold them accountable to any hint of an ethical standard will be held to be unconstitutional, by them, before the ink at the print shop has dried.

They are imperiling their own power. The Supreme Court has neither the ability to command law enforcement nor the ability to control budgets. Their power is based on a belief that their rulings are fair and just. If the national consensus reaches a tipping point that the justices are a pack of partisan hacks and society decides to disregard their holdings, there is fuck-all that they can do about it.