Legendarily uncourageous and compromising Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy on Thursday refused to address the still ongoing revelations about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas being owned by a Texas MAGA billionaire with a Hitler fetish. In related news, Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin on Thursday invited Chief Justice John Roberts to come in and testify about the court’s ethical shitshow, which ought to be interesting either way if Roberts declines or accepts.

“I invite you, or another Justice whom you designate, to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 2, 2023, at 10:00 am in room 216 of the Hart Senate Office Building to testify at a public hearing regarding the ethical rules that govern the Justices of the Supreme Court and potential reforms to those rules. In extending this invitation, I offer that the scope of your testimony can be limited to these subjects, and that you would not be expected to answer questions from Senators regarding any other matters. Your last significant discussion of how Supreme Court Justices address ethical issues was presented in your 2011 Report on the Federal Judiciary.”

“Since then, there has been a steady stream of revelations regarding Justices falling short of the ethical standards expected of other federal judges and, indeed, of public servants generally. These problems were already apparent back in 2011, and the Court’s decade-long failure to address them has contributed to a crisis of public confidence. The status quo is no longer tenable,” wrote Durbin.