Brett Kavanaugh Can Attend Christmas Parties

The latest contrived tantrum over a supposed breach of ethics on the Supreme Court comes after Politico reported that Justice Brett Kavanaugh recently attended a private Christmas party at the home of American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp. Not surprisingly, a number of prominent conservatives were in attendance, including veterans of the Bush and Trump administrations. Kavanaugh himself is a veteran of the Bush administration, during which he served as White House staff secretary.

I would say that liberal commentators went into overdrive except that it has become standard operating procedure for them to invent fake ethical standards, applied selectively to conservatives. (I previously commented on this phenomenon here, here, and here.) The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus devoted a column to how the Christmas party “feeds into a perception of the court, fairly or not, as an institution tainted with partisanship.” “This is the worst possible time for this,” professor Charles Geyh of Indiana University Maurer School of Law is quoted as saying in a Bloomberg Law article titled “Kavanaugh Holiday Party Appearance Raises Ethics Questions.”

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The latest contrived tantrum over a supposed breach of ethics on the Supreme Court comes after Politico reported that Justice Brett Kavanaugh recently attended a private Christmas party at the home of American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp. Not surprisingly, a number of prominent conservatives were in attendance, including veterans of the Bush and Trump administrations. Kavanaugh himself is a veteran of the Bush administration, during which he served as White House staff secretary.

I would say that liberal commentators went into overdrive except that it has become standard operating procedure for them to invent fake ethical standards, applied selectively to conservatives. (I previously commented on this phenomenon here, here, and here.) The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus devoted a column to how the Christmas party “feeds into a perception of the court, fairly or not, as an institution tainted with partisanship.” “This is the worst possible time for this,” professor Charles Geyh of Indiana University Maurer School of Law is quoted as saying in a Bloomberg Law article titled “Kavanaugh Holiday Party Appearance Raises Ethics Questions.”