There are apparently only two choices for a right-leaning Supreme Court justice in Washington: Voluntarily leap into a shark tank while covered in blood or just stay home.
That’s more or less the choice presented this week by The Washington Post’s Strega Nona, who sometimes goes by the name Ruth Marcus. She wrote Tuesday that she’s not “worked up” about Justice Brett Kavanaugh attending a Christmas party with prominent Republicans. But she does find it “concerning” that the judge isn’t branching out more.
“A conservative justice partying with conservative activists feeds into a perception of the court, fairly or not, as an institution tainted with partisanship,” wrote Marcus. She said there was a “tendency among justices to speak to, or attend events sponsored by, groups and institutions with which they are ideologically attuned,” but that the more conservative-minded justices in particular “seem lately inclined to favor friendly institutions, religious and conservative organizations.”
Shorter version: Why isn’t Kavanaugh partying with the people who don’t like him?!
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