The Left’s long war against separation of powers

Washington Examiner ^ | 8 May, 2023 | By Washington Examiner

[MtnClimber]

The Democratic Party and its media allies continued their campaign to delegitimize the Supreme Court last week, this time attacking Justice Clarence Thomas for the crime of giving love and support to his impoverished great nephew decades ago.

Although ethics rules do not require judges to disclose when third parties pay tuition for distant relatives, Democrats want people to believe it is somehow scandalous that Justice Thomas’s personal friend Harlan Crow funded a scholarship for Thomas’s relation at the same school Crow had attended.

Crow had no business before the Supreme Court at the time the scholarship was funded, nor has he had any since. But Democrats still want people to believe the incident requires the creation of a separate independent ethics body empowered to investigate and pass judgment on ethics complaints filed against Supreme Court justices.

When the Supreme Court was firmly in liberal hands, creating new rights to abortion and same-sex marriage, no one ever scrutinized the personal lives of already-confirmed justices for possible ethical lapses. But now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, suddenly decades-old transactions and tuition payments are threats to the republic.

In a larger and more historical sense, however, there is nothing new about Democrats' push to disrupt the founders' careful balancing of legislative, executive, and judicial powers by creating new supposedly independent bodies that would dispassionately and objectively rule everyone. They are not bothered by the fact that the Constitution does not provide for a fourth branch of government.

[MtnClimber]

What if the DemocRATS, who seem to have no standards, were held to the same standards that they hold conservatives to?

[Olog-hai]

For that to happen, they’d have to abandon their “principles”, which consist solely of attaining omnipotence.

And the Uniparty RINOs must be included among the Democrats.

[marktwain]

Democrats are ideological Progressives. Progressives are all about doing away with restrictions on government power.

A key part of Progressive ideology is the United States should be ruled by experts; with one key provision: All the experts have to be Progressives.

[MtnClimber]

I agree with your evaluation:

All the experts have to be Progressives.

Meaning that the "experts" have no experience in anything real. The only experience is political manipulation for the benefit of the political parasites.