Fine wrote, “Oversight of the judiciary is a difficult issue, involving separation-of-powers concerns. I was the inspector general of the Department of Justice for 11 years and the acting inspector general of the Department of Defense for four years; I saw the importance and challenges of oversight in two of the most important government agencies. I also experienced the difficulties in conducting complex investigations of alleged misconduct, including leak investigations. But as I wrote in a Brookings Institution article this past May after the Dobbs leak, the Supreme Court does not have the internal capacity to effectively investigate such leaks, and it would benefit from a skilled internal investigator, like an inspector general, to help oversee the Court and the judiciary.”

Wait a second.

This guy was the inspector general of the Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011? Who did he send to jail? Has he ever spoken against the FBI’s spying on Donald Trump? Did he call out the Mueller Witch Hunt?

Of course not. And he left as chairman of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee in 2020 after Trump fired him as an inspector general.

What Fine proposes is tying the court down by the inspector general bureaucracy which was OK with the FBI spying on a presidential nominee but clutches its pearls over Ginni Thomas being a conservative.