'Scurrilous attacks': DeSantis amps up defense of Justices Alito and Thomas amid scrutiny over donor gifts
For their part, both justices have denied wrongdoing. “ProPublica has leveled two charges against me: first, that I should have recused in matters in which an entity connected with Paul Singer was a party and, second, that I was obligated to list certain items as gifts on my 2008 Financial Disclose Report. Neither charge is valid,” Alito wrote in an op-ed forpublished Tuesday night.
“Early in my tenure at the Court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the Court, was not reportable,” Thomas said in a statement back in April. “I have endeavored to follow that counsel throughout my tenure, and have always sought to comply with the disclosure guidelines.
DeSantis, in his Friday speech, said left-leaning individuals are fearful of the conservative majority on the court. “If they’re able to sweep in [2024], they’re going to pack the U.S. Supreme Court with liberal justices,” he said. “They’re hard at this effort of trying to lay the groundwork for that by delegitimizing, delegitimizing our great conservative justices. I stand with Justice Thomas. I stand with Justice Alito in the face of these attacks,” DeSantis continued.
DeSantis recently criticized former President Donald Trump’s nominees to the Supreme Court, Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, saying that while he had “respect” for the three jurists, he would “do better than that.”
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