re: #4 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As of next week, the entire GOP will be Appealing to Heaven. I can well bet that flag suppliers will be struggling to keep up with demand

Which will make it ridiculously clear for every idiot that this is indeed partisan, even if they were trying to be deliberately stupid about it.

I heartily endorse dragging Roberts into the Senate to explain himself. My guess is we’ll end up with some stuck up letter that specifically states that the Supreme Court has no code of ethics, which is a useful thing to wave around when an election’s coming up.