AG Report 4.27.2023
Dishonest Hit Pieces Targeting SCOTUS Majority Continued...
The press was really committed this week to further proving that much of their reporting on the Supreme Court right now involves coordinates hit pieces aimed at delegitimizing the conservative majority. What is going on here is that far-left activist groups are searching through the financial disclosures of the conservative justices and finding anything they can spin as wrong, even if it clearly isn’t, and then feeding it to sympathetic reporters who are too lazy to do their own research. That’s the only plausible explanation for some of the stories this week.
CNN published a piece going back after Thomas by claiming that a company related to his friend, Harlan Crow, had business before the Supreme Court. The implication is that given their close relationship and past gifts, Thomas should have recused from the case. That is until you read and realize this was a case that the Supreme Court declined to hear and Harland Crow’s company had nothing to do with the case. Instead, one of the companies that was party to the case has a parent company that Harlan Crow’s family has a minority interest in. Next, they will find that Thomas’ 3rd cousin bought stock in a company that was before the court 2 decades ago and he failed to recuse.
In order to prove these smears aren’t just being aimed at the court’s African American conservative justice, Politico’s hack reporter Heidi Pryzbyla also published a ridiculous hit piece aimed at Justice Gorsuch. The piece is focused on Gorsuch allegedly selling a piece of property when he first got onto the court. The article tries to imply that, while he disclosed the sale and amount, he intentionally omitted to list the buyer because he was the head of a law firm with extensive business before the court. This is all misdirection that relies on the ignorance of the audience and, likely, the reporter. That buyer, Brian Duffy, is a major donor to Democrats and emphasized he didn’t even know Gorsuch had an ownership stake in the LLC that owned the property. In addition, not only was Gorsuch not required to disclose the buyer on his forms, but it would have been wrong for him to do so. Gorsuch was listing the sale of his share of the LLC. The Politico article couldn’t name any rules that Gorsuch had broken, but they tried to create an illusion of wrongdoing anyways. These partisan and dishonest hit pieces will continue as long as the reporters behind them keep being rewarded for such poor journalism.
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