At the time Brett Kavanaugh, an old friend of mine, had just been sworn in to the Supreme Court, and I had lunch with someone who had known both of us when we were younger. “Well,” she said. “You must be glad that’s over.” I said yes, of course, but with one major caveat: “You do realize that the left will never give up on this,” I told her. “You understand that what they did to me and Brett they will continue to try and do, even to sitting justices on the Court.” …

My friend was laughing at what she considered an absurd idea — that the left would do to the SCOTUS justices what they had tried with us. I mean, United States senators were asking us about our high school slang for passing gas and examining our underground newspaper. The idea that they would do the same to, say, Justice Roberts or Justice Thomas was laughable.

I wasn’t laughing. Since 2018 I have tried to warn people that the left would use the same artillery uses onus against the justices themselves.