Thomas's Warning

You may have missed Justice Clarence Thomas's extraordinary warning last week that the Supreme Court is under attack and may never recover.  Thomas said that the unprecedented leak of a draft opinion was "tremendously bad," adding, "I wonder how long we're going to have these institutions [like the Supreme Court] at the rate we're undermining them."

He went on to say that the trust between the justices has been shattered.  "Now that trust is gone forever," adding that the court is fundamentally changed with every justice "looking over their shoulder." 

Thomas also mocked the left's clear campaign of intimidation against the conservative justices, calling it a "temper tantrum." 

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, however, couldn't care less about the damage to the high court.  During an interview on CNN yesterday, Pelosi blasted Justice Thomas and the court's other conservatives as "dangerous to freedom."  That's rich!

For decades, the left had a majority on the Supreme Court, and liberal justices repeatedly attacked the freedoms expressly stated in the Constitution. 

Religious liberty has been under constant attack by the left.  The freedom of speech is regularly attacked by the left.  The right to have a firearm to protect your family is always hanging by a thread because of attacks from the left.

Liberal justices have mocked the idea that they should be limited or restrained by the words of the Constitution.  Worse, they have cited international law and the constitutions of other countries for guidance.  Apparently, the words of Madison, Adams, Hamilton, Jefferson and other Founding Fathers aren't good enough for liberal justices.

All of this, of course, points to the important elections coming up in a few months.  There's only one thing standing in the way of progressive demands to expand the number of justices on the Supreme Court and then ramming through more left-wing activists like Ketanji Brown Jackson to finish the socialist takeover of America. 

On a good day, Senate liberals only have 50 senators on their side.  But on this issue, Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have been reluctant to repeal the extended debate provision in the Senate, known as the filibuster.  But two more progressive votes could give Schumer the majority he needs to eliminate the filibuster.

That's how precarious the position of the country we love is today.