Thread by @SenWhitehouse

The Commission has accomplished its job of killing time for the Biden Administration while avoiding any controversy or impact.
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Unfortunately, this law school faculty-heavy commission failed to accomplish even the opening “issue-spotting” work taught in first year in law school.

If another country had given its judicial selection over to a private, partisan group, while that partisan group was taking massive anonymous private donations, we’d have something to say about the obvious dangers of that. Not here.

If anonymous donors wrote checks for $15 million and more to influence judicial selection through dark-money political advertising campaigns, without disclosing their business before the Court, we’d have something to say about that. Not here.

Flotillas of orchestrated dark-money “amici curiae” appear before the Court without revealing who they’re fronting for; it’s serious enough for the Judicial Conference to set up a committee to examine the problem. But it’s not mentioned here.

We are up to 80 partisan 5-4 decisions from the Court that provided obvious wins for big Republican donor interests. The pattern demands explanation. You won’t find it mentioned here.

One success: they at last point to the need for a Code of Ethics applicable to Supreme Court Justices. Justices’ disclosures are weaker than executive and legislative offices’ when it should be the other way around.

Failures to recuse are unexplained. Flagrantly partisan activities are the new normal. It’s a mess.