The wingnut double play

Mike “ten year-olds in coalmines” Lee does NOT LIKE two reporters pointing out the obvious about the effect of leaking the Dobbs draft:

“I know for a fact that this is false. After all, I got my copy from Ginni Thomas!”

In addition to trying to discredit the Times‘s reporting with the power of bare assertion, Lee reminds us that the neoconfederate movement in America still wants to overrule New York Times v. Sullivan, because they want to be able to bankrupt media outlets that publish things they don’t like. It should go without saying that the impact of the Court doing this would be terrifying, which certainly doesn’t mean that they won’t.

Here’s another piece Senator Extremely Online would like media organizations to be punished for publishing:

But the true shock of their piece lies in fact that none of it is shocking: Samuel Alito came to the court wishing to overturn Roe and lied about that fact at his confirmation hearings; Neil Gorsuch didn’t even bother to read the draft opinion authored by Alito before he agreed to put his name to it, or else secretly viewed a draft before it was circulated to other justices; Amy Coney Barrett has someone in her chambers who wants us to see her as a tormented and complicated woman, even as she refused to do anything but rubber-stamp an opinion that would confirm to the world that she was a token, partisan, politics-haired appointment. And Brett Kavanaugh? He is precisely as absurdly self-important, scheming, untrustworthy, and ineffectual as we all knew him to be.

One could add a note here about Clarence Thomas’ former clerk, who devised the whole case as a bait-and-switch to kill Roe at the same time he was palling around with Clarence and Ginni Thomas at a West Virginia resort. But really, why? The point is not that any part of this meticulously reported piece will surprise anyone who has watched the high court stagger deeper and deeper into disgrace and moral irrelevance. The point is that every single thing described by the New York Times is now deemed ordinary, lawful, acceptable, and accepted at the highest court of the land.