 I think it's evident to most reasonable people that the Supreme Court is currently facing a massive legitimacy crisis. And for good reason, and I'd argue that this legitimacy crisis not only rivals that of the Loch Nair era but surpasses it because it's not just that they're handing down incredibly unpopular reactionary decisions, but it's also because there's very apparently a lack of ethical standards among Supreme Court justices. Like Justice Clarence Thomas, for example, his wife used her influence and proximity to a Supreme Court justice to try to overturn the results of a democratic election. She actually reached out to lawmakers in states to get them to send in rogue electors to the electoral college to overturn the results of the last election, the last presidential election. And this is something that you can't recover from, especially considering the fact that there's been no accountability for her at this point in time, and Justice Clarence Thomas hasn't even recused himself related to cases involving January 6th, which is relevant given that his wife is now a part of that insurrection attempt. So when you see things like this, it's obvious why Americans have lost faith in the Supreme Court as an institution, but it gets worse because as the New York Times explains, as the Supreme Court investigates the extraordinary leak this spring of a draft opinion of the decision of returning Roe v. Wade, a former anti-abortion leader, has come forward claiming that another breach occurred in a 2014 landmark case involving contraception and religious rights. In a letter to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and in interviews with the New York Times, the Reverend Rob Schenke said he was told the outcome of the 2014 case weeks before it was announced. He used that information to prepare a public relations push record show, and he said that at the last minute he tipped off the president of Hobby Lobby, the craft store chain owned by Christian evangelicals that was the winning party in the case. Now, Reverend Rob Schenke was the leader of a group called Faith and Action. So this group was an evangelical organization that was well connected, not just to other evangelical organizations, but to donors. And they had an association with various Supreme Court justices, and thanks to an article published by Politico back in July, we learned how Schenke's Faith and Action group has been influencing Supreme Court justices for years now, flying individuals to DC to visit and entertain, sitting Supreme Court justices such as Thomas Alito and Scalia back when he was alive. And the specific intent of these visits was to influence the decisions of Supreme Court justices. Now we're learning about the 2014 leak because of Reverend Schenke. And the reason why he's speaking out now is because he's split with evangelical groups, so he's blowing the whistle. And when you learn about the 2014 leak, I don't think that this affects the legitimacy of the court simply because, oh no leakers are bad. It's who leaked this decision that makes it so incriminating. The New York Times continues, Mr. Schenke, who used to lead an evangelical nonprofit in Washington, said he learned about the Hobby Lobby opinion because he had worked for years to exploit the court's permeability. He gained access through faith, through favors traded with gatekeepers, and through wealthy donors to his organization, abortion opponents, whom he called stealth missionaries. In early June of 2014, an Ohio couple who were Mr. Schenke's star donors shared a meal with Justice Alito and his wife, Martha Ann. A day later, Gail Wright, one of the pair, contacted Mr. Schenke according to an email reviewed by The Times. Rob, if you want some interesting news, please call no email she wrote. So do you understand what Schenke is alleging here? So back in 2014, a donor who Schenke knew had dinner with Justice Alito and his wife, Alito then presumably relayed the result of the 2014 Hobby Lobby case to that donor. They then relayed that information to Schenke, and then Schenke was able to use his organization to prepare a PR blitz to save face, to help Hobby Lobby prepare statements, whatever. He's saying that Alito leaked the 2014 Hobby Lobby decision. Now let me remind you that after we learned about the Dobs leak, Alito called the leak a grave betrayal. But here we have substantial evidence that Alito himself was leaking the outcome of Supreme Court decisions to huge donors connected to this evangelical organization. Now it gets worse when you consider the fact that the Supreme Court launched an investigation into the Dobs leaker, but we never learned who that leaker was. It's a little bit suspicious, is it not? Now Schenke came forward with this information two months after Roberts launched the inquiry into the Dobs leaker, because he thought that his story was obviously relevant. He essentially told Chief Justice John Roberts, hey, I know that you're trying to figure out who the leaker was, but Alito leaked an opinion to one of my donors back in 2014. Maybe this is relevant, but Schenke did not get a response from Chief Justice Roberts, which indicates that Roberts knows that Alito at least leaked the decision back in 2014, and he's protecting Alito. And if Alito leaked that decision, is it plausible to think maybe he leaked the 2022 decision, especially learning that that leak kind of helped solidify the positions of individuals like Gorsuch or Kavanaugh, whoever John Roberts was trying to get to kind of move from the total repeal or overturning a Roe v. Wade to like a 15 week abortion ban, just accepting the Mississippi law? Like, do you understand how incriminating this is? Not only do we have evidence because of this story that Alito has leaked Supreme Court decisions, but that Chief Justice John Roberts is covering for Alito by refusing to respond to this very important individual who had relevant details to that investigation. As Congressman Wander Jones puts it, this article by The New York Times strongly suggests Justice Alito leaked the 2014 opinion in Hobby Lobby and describes a conspiracy by the far right donor class to influence the Supreme Court justices. But one more thing that Congressman Jones didn't point out is it indicates that Chief Justice John Roberts is covering Justice Alito's ass. Jesus, they are so shameless. Now as a result, Congress is pissed and they want answers. There's been calls for ethics probes, and as HuffPost explains, top Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary committees demanded on Sunday that the Supreme Court Justice Chief Justice John Roberts comply with their investigation into the court's refusal to abide by ethics laws. And if the court continues to suggest it's not serious about policing itself, Congress will step in, warned the joint letter from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Hank Johnson. Chairs of the subcommittees overseeing the federal judiciary in their respective chambers. Their letter to Roberts on Sunday followed up on a prior inquiry White House and Johnson made on September 7th after Politico First reported on Shank's influence campaign. At the time, they wrote to Roberts to encourage the court to adopt a formal ethics code. They demanded answers about how many justices were provided travel, dinners, logic, and other hospitality from donors connected to Shank's influence operation and why the justices did not disclose these gifts on their annual financial disclosure statements. And I know the answer to that, it's because they're all corrupt, they lack ethics, and they need to be impeached. So this is why the Supreme Court is currently dealing with the legitimacy crisis. When you have coup plotters on the Supreme Court, like Chloe and Thomas, when you have justices who are leaking opinions to donors, who they obviously are very connected to and trust, otherwise you wouldn't have leaked that information, then this is why nobody trusts the court. So the Supreme Court is moving towards this climate where we just ignore what they say since everything that they say is politically motivated and perhaps motivated by their connections with evangelical organizations. It's just, it's shocking, but so unsurprising, right? I wouldn't be surprised if we learned more about how they're in cahoots with other religious organizations because these evangelicals on the Supreme Court, they have shown that they don't care about the Constitution, they just care about enacting their theocratic agenda, forcing all of us to live in their handmade tale fantasy or whatever it is. And it's just, it's sickening, but it's par for the course when there are no ethical standards for these justices. So of course, they're going to be corrupt. Of course, they're going to just be brazenly acting in the interest of far-right donors because these are partisan actors, not objective interpreters of the Constitution contrary to popular belief.