Good Friday morning.
A legal matter — Gov. Ron DeSantis, who went to Yale and Harvard Law School, has of course, lots of strong opinions about the law and what’s constitutional, and what’s not.
Everyone’s a critic — The Republican governor even recently ripped into the U.S. Supreme Court over its decision to let a Biden administration vaccine mandate for health care workers remain intact while an underlying lawsuit proceeds. While appearing on the conservative Ruthless podcast last month, DeSantis said that both Chief Justice John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh did not have a “backbone” when they decided to allow the mandate to stand.
Call me — Well, it turns out that DeSantis may have his own direct connection to the Supreme Court.
CC time — Emails handed over to American Oversight, a group that bills itself as a government watchdog, suggest that DeSantis is in regular contact with Justice Clarence Thomas. In June 2021, Thomas’ wife, Ginni, who runs her own consulting firm, worked with the DeSantis administration to have the governor talk to a coalition of groups, including people affiliated with Judicial Watch, the conservative organization that uses information requests and lawsuits to investigate public officials.
The pitch — In one of the emails about having DeSantis talk to “conservative patriots,” Ginni Thomas says that DeSantis should be acquainted with her for a few reasons: she interviewed him for the Daily Caller when he was in Congress, saw him at a state dinner when Donald Trump was president, and “my husband has been in contact with him too on various things of late.”
Response — POLITICO’s Matt Dixon reached out to the governor’s office about this email, but did not get a response. Helen Aguirre Ferré, the executive director of the Republican Party of Florida, responded by saying “I can’t speak about any private conversations Governor DeSantis may or may not have had with anyone but both he and Justice Thomas believe in the separation of powers and defend individual liberty, the law and the Constitution as written.”
Admirer — There’s no question DeSantis holds Thomas in high regard. Back in 2018, the governor called the justice the “gold standard for a Supreme Court appointment.” The two also appeared together at a 2020 Federalist Society conference held in Disney World where DeSantis introduced Thomas as the “greatest living justice.”
— WHERE’S RON? — Gov. DeSantis is scheduled to appear with former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany at the Federalist Society conference being held at Disney World in Lake Buena Vista.
DeSantis’ Supreme Court connection
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So what else is new? These guys are all like fleas on a dog.
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Hello Nan. What gets me is the pure projection and denial of reality of their supporters. They think their politicians walk on water while Pelosi and the Democratic politicians are lying scheming thugs trying to sell the country to China. But the fact that the SCOTUS has become so political, so corrupt is frightening because they rule on the laws we have to live by. It is so bad that Roberts had to release a statement saying they were not political, yet as this article shows they clearly are. It also seems clear that regardless of secular law the Justices will rule based on their religion more than the constitution.
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