Do As I Say, Not As I Do
January 27, 2012
The Gavel Grabbers – the social media arm for Justice at Stake and the $45 million George Soros-fed campaign to shape America’s courts to his uber-left political leanings – are wringing their hands over the “anti-court fever” stoked by Newt Gingrich. Gavel Grab quotes criticism by columnists who decry the “constitutional crisis” Gingrich is “promising,” along with warnings his proposals would turn America into a “banana republic.” Yet Justice at Stake and the entire Soros machine has itself been guilty of slamming court decisions with which it disagrees with as much fervor as Gingrich.
Justice at Stake’s Bert Brandenburg, for one, condemned the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision as a “ruling that pours gasoline on an already raging bonfire” and, with no evidence whatsoever, predicted it “will pose an especially grave threat to the integrity of elected state courts.” The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has launched a campaign to overturn Citizens United, with no apparent protest from Justice at Stake.
Let’s see now: Gingrich’s critique of America’s courts threaten a “constitutional crisis” … but Justice at Stake’s attack on the U.S. Supreme Court serves some noble public cause. How does that work exactly? The answer is simple: it’s all politics. When Justice at Stake’s ox is being gored, as in the Citizens United decision, incendiary rhetoric and demands the ruling be overturned are fair game. But if someone else questions the courts … well! How dare they turn America into a “banana republic”?!
All of which goes to show, as if further proof were needed, that the entire Justice at Stake enterprise is merely an effort to promote a certain political and ideological viewpoint in our courts. That’s certainly their right. But to suggest that they’re serving some broader public good is, to quote another Gingrich line, a bunch of self-righteous baloney.