A High-Tech Leaking

Normally would have a hard time believing this:

This source insists that the claim that the joint dissent was drafted from scratch in June is flatly untrue. Furthermore, the source characterizes claims by Crawford’s sources that “the fact that the joint dissent doesn’t mention [sic] Roberts’ majority… was a signal the conservatives no longer wished to engage in debate with him” as “pure propagandistic spin,” meant to explain away the awkward fact that while the first 46 pages of the joint dissent never even mention Roberts’ opinion for the court (this is surely the first time in the court’s history that a dissent has gone on for 13,000 words before getting around to mentioning that it is, in fact, dissenting), the last 19 pages do so repeatedly.

Bizarre. Can't imagine what type of Justice would engage in "pure propagandistic spin", can you?

I do know that CBS’s reporter, Jan Crawford, is a fine journalist whose good relationship with Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Tea Party booster and sometime Daily Caller correspondent Ginni Thomas, is widely known around the Supreme Court.

Thomas comes off as a principled conservative in Crawford’s story, especially by comparison to the Chief Justice. He is one of the conservative justices who “deliberately avoid[s] news articles on the court when issues are pending (and avoid some publications altogether, such as The New York Times).” He doesn’t want to be “influenced by outside opinion or feel pressure from outlets that are perceived as liberal.”

Not sure what's most depressing here: (1) The fact that four of the Justices were willing to repeal the 20th Century last week; (2) the spouse of one of them is a right-wing political operative who lobbies on legislation that gets argued before her husband's court; or (3) one of our intrepid media watchdogs enjoys palling around with these truly awful people instead of doing her job, which is supposed to be, you know, reporting about what they fucking do, not channeling whatever gratuitous nonsense they leak to her.

Our incestuous Beltway politico-media culture is so hideously inbred at this point, it's amazing half the people in Washington don't have hare lips and hemophilia.

(Via DeLong.)

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