Justice Kagan’s Folly

She wants an ethics code to be enforced by those who are appealed to the high bench.

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Honoré Daumier. Via Wikimedia Commons

Not since March 9, 1789, when the Confederation Congress set the Constitution into use has there been a proposal for reform so cockeyed, topsy-turvy, ill-considered, self-defeating, nickel-plated, inapt, self-aggrandizing, inside out, logically crosswise, aimed at one’s own foot, and swell-headed as Justice Elena Kagan’s scheme to allow lower court judges to enforce an ethics code against the Supreme Court.

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