I’m a civil rights lawyer. I don’t want to practice before a Court that’s compromised. I want a fair Court. Expansion would make this particular Court more ideologically balanced. Agree. But w/o a real, enforced ethics infrastructure, there will be 18 justices not fully disclosing financials, not compelled to recuse, praying in chambers w/their own faith leaders, going on trips w/groups filing briefs in cases before them, owning stock in indiv companies whose interests are before the Court.

Lots of discussion in Twitter abt the explosive revelations in this NYT piece describing a targeted campaign of influence by anti-anottion influencers on the Court and the charge that Justice Alito or his wife leaked the outcome of the Hobby Lobby case (& the decision’s offer) weeks before it went public to a wealthy couple who were part of this anti-abortion influence effort. Free link to the piece in the next post. It is HUGE.