Right Wing Round-Up: Trust Me, I’m Ethical

  • Ian Millhiser @ Vox: Alito says the Supreme Court’s fake ethics code allows him to be unethical
  • In a development that should surprise absolutely no one, Justice Samuel Alito announced in a brief letter on Wednesday that he will not recuse himself from two cases involving the January 6 insurrection and former President Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election.

  • Angry White Men: Stew Peters: ‘If The Feds Come For My Guns, I’m Gonna Shoot The Feds’
  • On Friday, Peters made his first appearance on Rumble’s Fresh & Fit Podcast — a show hosted by antisemitic manosphere influencers Myron Gaines and Walter Weekes — where he claimed he would rather die in a violent shootout with federal agents than surrender his firearms.

  • Media Matters: After being called a “prophet,” Rudy Giuliani says he feels “a great deal of responsibility as a result of it, and to try to fulfill it”
  • Host Steve Shultz: “It’s like God’s seeing you in a higher plane than maybe you would even see yourself.”

  • Josh Fiallo @ The Daily Beast: Ex-Trump Lawyer Jenna Ellis Has Law License Suspended in Colorado
  • The decision is the latest fallout Ellis has faced since she tried to help Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election.

  • Alice Miranda Ollstein and Megan Messerly @ Politico: Trump says he won’t ‘ban’ birth control. Here’s what he may do instead.
  • The “Project 2025” blueprint includes proposals to require coverage of natural family planning methods and remove requirements that insurance cover certain emergency contraception.

  • John Fea @ Current: The GOP is a Trump cult. Just ask Bob Good
  • Good has a pretty impressive MAGA record. But that won’t get him very far in today’s GOP. Why? Because he would not bend the knee to Trump.

  • David A. Graham @ The Atlantic: Mark Robinson Is Testing the Bounds of GOP Extremism
  • If he loses, the Republicans have a problem. If he wins, they also have a problem.

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