The American left is terrified of the one institution that they do not control: the Supreme Court of the United States. They are even more terrified that Joe Biden is looking extremely shaky for re-election and, if he does not win, it will give Republicans and conservatives a likely opportunity to solidify a right-leaning SCOTUS for many more years.
We have seen their terror in action since even before the Dobbs decision when Chuck Schumer warned Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh that they would 'reap the whirlwind' if Roe v. Wade was overturned. When a deranged leftist later tried to assassinate Kavanaugh and his family after Dobbs, Schumer and the media were conspicuously silent about his 'stochastic terrorism' remarks.
We can't even recount all of the times they have gone after Clarence Thomas (not to mention his wife).
Most recently, the left has set their sights on Samuel Alito, with some of the most ridiculous smears we have ever seen, from his selling the stock of a failing beer company to flying a 250-year-old George Washington flag outside of his house.
Of course, none of these attacks have worked. Because they are all baseless. But if you think that was going to stop them, you don't know the American left. This morning, Rolling Stone decided to open a new front in the left's war on SCOTUS, this time with an attack on Amy Coney Barrett.
Oops. We're sorry. They didn't attack Barrett. They attacked her husband.
EXCLUSIVE: Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s husband is representing Fox Corporation — Fox News’ parent company — in a defamation lawsuit, according to court records reviewed by Rolling Stone.
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 29, 2024
Story: https://t.co/9po9aqhHFv pic.twitter.com/Rdt4ctVoso
STOP THE PRESSES. Jesse Barrett is an attorney who has ... clients? What an outrage.
The article is paywalled, but here is a brief excerpt to show just how meritless Rolling Stone's 'exclusive' is. Get ready to clutch your pearls.
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s husband is currently representing Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, in a defamation lawsuit, according to court records reviewed by Rolling Stone.
Jesse Barrett is a trial lawyer and managing partner at SouthBank Legal. He heads the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, which opened after Justice Barrett joined the high court. While the SouthBank Legal website says that Jesse Barrett 'focuses on white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations, and complex commercial litigation,' it notes, in a recent addition, that he has 'represented a prominent media company in a lawsuit alleging defamation.'That prominent media company is Fox Corporation, which owns the conservative cable news channel Fox News. Fox News regularly covers matters at the Supreme Court and will surely continue to do so as the high court nears the end of its term.
Can someone get these sleuths a Pulitzer already? They 'discovered' information publicly available in court records.
The best part is the "EXCLUSIVE."
— RBe (@RBPundit) May 29, 2024
As if the story of a person having a job as a lawyer is somehow the work of very serious investigative journalism. https://t.co/RSqwPvD0z7
And what a scandal indeed. Barrett represents the Fox Corporation. The Fox News Channel covers SCOTUS.
Dogs and cats living together. MASS HYSTERIA.
Give us a break.
It's not like the defamation suit in question is even appearing before SCOTUS, which would require Justice Barrett's recusal. It's a simple defamation case in a lower federal court (and from the details, a very weak case, which is why Jesse Barrett and Fox Corporation are seeking a dismissal).
Remember @RolingStone was outraged that Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s husband represented clients before HER court? Yeah, we don’t either…
— Brad Slager - Scrubbing Down In a Bloodbath (@MartiniShark) May 29, 2024
Funny, the collective press lost their minds when the party connections of the daughter of Judge Merchan were reported, but this is a “problem”. https://t.co/pmZjHDKlEZ
The selective outrage they display reveals everything about them. This is not about ethical problems or conflicts of interest (because there are none). This is about trying to delegitimize the court entirely. And it's obvious.
Here’s another reminder that the communists are running an op against SCOTUS and they will succeed if something isn’t done about it.
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) May 29, 2024
They already almost killed one. This is a campaign. It’s organized, focused, and funded. https://t.co/jnsaxbG0Ya
Hang on a second. Justice Barrett's husband's name is Jesse. Jesse Kelly's name is also Jesse. Clearly, this is COLLUSION. Someone get Rolling Stone's crack investigative team on that immediately.
But Kelly is correct, of course. Dark money groups feed these 'scandals' to lapdog media like Rolling Stone, which happily run with them even though they have no substance. Repeat a lie often enough and people might start to believe it. It's the 'spaghetti against the wall' theory of modern journalism.
😱 oh noes, a lawyer is representing a company?! What shall we ever do???
— Kristi (@TheyCallMeNans) May 29, 2024
It's shocking, right? And remember, this is the same media that doesn't care at all about Nancy Pelosi's insider trading or the fact that Eric Swalwell slept with a Chinese spy and the CCP bundled money for his campaign.
Now do Merchan and his daughter working to raise money for the Dems.
— Belladonna (@kcochran67) May 29, 2024
Yeah, they don't care about that either. Or Judge Engoron.
Setting aside the media's hypocrisy (just for a moment), Twitter was happy to tell Rolling Stone about the absolute nothing burger they had unearthed.
So what?
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 29, 2024
And?
— NavyTim (@ChiefNavyTim) May 29, 2024
Oh my god. A lawyer does... wait for it.... lawyer things.
— John Adams (@JhnAdmz) May 29, 2024
So…? This isn’t an ethics violation. Didn’t you guys used to report on music?
— Mega Maga Baba Yaga (@CeeMcGee63) May 29, 2024
They did. Badly. But then they decided to start making up stories like 'rape culture' at the University of Virginia and gunshot victims being forced to wait in parking lots because of 'the unvaccinated.'
Every slobbering liberal nutbag is out there looking for anything they can twist into one of their idiot fever dreams of corrupt SCOTUS so they can rig the court.@RollingStone used to be about music and culture. Now it is just another cesspool of leftist hate. https://t.co/6bdNKOiAus
— Sigh... (@JimmyHallTX) May 29, 2024
'Cesspool of leftist hate.' That tracks.
lol look at them go. Just look at it. https://t.co/s3GIKAoUkw
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 29, 2024
It’s hard to keep up with the smears. Let’s see…
— Political Sock (@politicalsock) May 29, 2024
Thomas should not go on vacations with friends & needs to control his wife.
Alito is a closet insurrectionist.
ACB goes to church, & her husband is a lawyer with good clients.
Kav is a gang rapist.
The desperation is real. https://t.co/vryTRVrhXe
The desperation is also hilarious.
And another completely made-up scandal by the liberal media against a Supreme Court justice.
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 29, 2024
The left needs to get a life. https://t.co/X4Vl46K4Zs
They need to touch ALL the grass.
BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's husband has a job. https://t.co/GbhMemEALz
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) May 29, 2024
How DARE he.
It’s a sign of the sad decay of Western culture that men are out there having jobs instead of staying home to take care of their families and keep the house in order for their wives. Sad sign indeed https://t.co/EXmpoMOsb9
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) May 29, 2024
LOL. Harrison Butker really needs to address this awful state of affairs.
EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s husband also plays golf on the weekends and likes to eat at Applebee’s from time to time. Enough is enough!
— CornPop ☭ (@RealC0rnP0p) May 29, 2024
Just imagine if he ate at -- GASP -- Cracker Barrel. That might require a whole TEAM of Rolling Stone 'reporters.'
This is worse than 9/11
— BBG, Esq. (@bmetz131) May 29, 2024
HA. And Pearl Harbor. And the Civil War. All wrapped into one.
But as we are laughing at Rolling Stone (which they so richly deserve), don't forget the point Jesse Kelly made. This is a coordinated attack. And they will not stop, no matter how ridiculous it makes them seem to normal, sane people. They aren't trying to reach normal, sane people.
They are trying to undermine SCOTUS by any means necessary. They will amass more foundationless accusations and then present them all as a mountain of evidence that we need to 'fundamentally change America,' including the Supreme Court.
Fundamentally change ... say, that's an interesting phrase. We wonder who came up with that one.
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