The never-ending reporting on Supreme Court ethics has backfired. The goal was to demonstrate that certain Supreme Court Justices are behaving unethically. But in turn, each of these stories unraveled. The Justices either followed the rules, or made a good-faith error that was promptly corrected. If the entire media apparatus is unable to unearth actual problems, then we should take comfort: the Justices take their ethical obligations quite seriously.

The latest story to fall apart concerns Justice Thomas’s childhood home in Georgia, which was purchased by Harlan Crow. Mark Paoletta, who has many close ties to the Thomases, explains the details of that land transaction.

[Senate Democrats aren’t trying to reform the federal judiciary. They’re trying to delegitimize the Supreme Court, and media outlet like Pro Publica are doing their dirty work. — Ed]