Icon of the far right Justice Antonin Scalia, started this “fuck you, ethics” trend when he refused to recuse himself from a case involving his friend and hunting companion, the aptly named Dick Cheney. When asked about the appearance of impropriety in traveling with Vice President Cheney on Air Force Two for some kind of holiday playtime while he sat on a pending case involving Cheney’s secret Energy Task Force meeting with Enron execs and others to deregulate energy on the West Coast, he told the reporter “I think it’s a sad day in America when people question the integrity of Supreme Court justices.”

The reporter was young, and flustered, and worked for a large corporation, an inherently conservative artificial person. She was apparently unable to follow with “I agree with you that it is a sad day when Americans don’t trust the integrity of a Supreme Court justice. However, that was not responsive to my question. So again, how does this clear appearance of impropriety not require you to recuse yourself from a case involving a powerful friend you vacation with?” If it had been me, I like to think I’d have added “bitch” at the end of that rephrasing of my clear question.

However, the point was made by the arrogant Scalia. A justice can simply say “fuck you for fucking questioning my integrity you fucking commie fuck” and that is the end of any discussion of the appearance of impropriety. Enraged extremist Sam Alito can wear a swastika under his robes, next to his Appeal to Heaven t-shirt, while fingering his authoritative compendium of witch burning anti-abortion jurists, compromised Clarence “Black Klansman” Thomas can seethe publicly about how viciously unfair it is that he’s questioned about undisclosed generous gifts from close billionaire friends who sidled up to him once he was on the Supreme Court, not to mention his rabid, powerful activist wife’s full-throated support of the Stolen Election lie. John Roberts’s wife can make millions referring rightwing lawyers to organizations who bring cases before her husband. Kavanuagh’s huge credit card debt can magically disappear overnight, Gorsuch can suddenly easily sell a property he’d had on the market for years, etc.

These clearly partisan, ideologically pure, anti-democratic, fanatical products of a doctrinaire rightwing legal fraternity are completely out of control, and John Roberts is respectfully silent as he and his five activist colleagues brazen out this crisis of public confidence, using the Scalia method, as he votes with them to rule that partisan gerrymandering is completely legal, unless those drawing the maps are wearing Ku Klux Klan hoods and publicly calling for the mass lynching of Blacks as they remove Black voters from a partisan district to protect the election prospects of one of their own.

This, of course, is 11 years after these anti-democratic creeps neutered the unanimously reauthorized (98-0 in the Senate) Voting Rights Act and later ruled that partisan gerrymandering is a political question that the court can’t comment on, unless, of course, as they clarified recently, it’s a bunch of n-words trying to bring a case previously covered by the Voting Rights Act that henceforth will be impossible to win, under new Supreme Court precedent that shifts the burden to them to prove the merely partisan map was also drawn with unmistakable racist intent.

In overturning two federal courts in South Carolina, Alito, writing for the six, created a new presumption of legislative non-racism that must be overcome by Black plaintiffs, no matter what the lower courts’ fact finding showed, no matter that 62% of Blacks were moved out of Nancy Mace’s district and into Representative Jim Clyburn’s (D-SC) district. Alito needs at least a one vote MAGA majority in the House to avoid a bill of impeachment against him getting to the floor, obviously. Every partisan drawn gerrymandered district counts! Fuck these fucking Nazi putos.

Biden in term two must have Congress expand the court and add four or five moderate, non-Federalist Society “ideological” diehards, to the Supreme Court which must also adopt a binding code of ethics. I think Merrick Garland should be one of the added justices, he will make an excellent, highly principled justice, even if he has not been bold in fighting fascism as our nation’s top law enforcement official. Hopefully it’s not too late for democracy in our country teetering on the brink of Klan/Nazi/White Christian Nationalist rule as a powerful minority uses despair, hatred and fear to permanently cement its hold on absolute power.

In the meantime, no more strongly worded letters to bland, smug corporatist John Roberts, Senator Durbin. Subpoena a few of these openly contemptuous fascists, starting with Samuel “My wife doesn’t like being called a cunt” Alito. Do it Tuesday.