As some of you may have heard, justice Neil Gorsuch didn't wear a mask during oral arguments for two cases, challenging President Biden's vaccine medits.

These arguments kept him in close proximity to his colleagues for four hours.

Now that the court is again meeting in person, there are strict rules in place if you want to be in the chamber.

The requirements include a negative COVID test, social distancing, and wearing an N95 mask.

In this instance, Gorsuch was the only person who could not be bothered to follow the rules.

Maybe Gorsuch's performative and transigence was simply a way to illustrate the contempt he has for the vaccine mandates he and his colleagues were there to adjudicate.

As Ruth Marcus puts it in a recent column, no one is the boss of justice Gorsuch.

And as far as his pseudo-liberitarian self is concerned, everyone else can just go to hell.

That's the overarching problem. Nobody is the boss of any of the nine justices.

There's nobody to hold them to account. Every member of the federal judiciary is subject to a code of conduct except Supreme Court justices.

There's no ethics committee overseeing their behavior, which explains why Amy Coney Barrett, an unqualified hack whose confirmation was pushed through by the Republican-led Senate in 30 days,

didn't have to recuse herself from a case involving Americans for prosperity, which had announced upon her nomination that it was funding a full-scale campaign to confirm her with financing in the seven-figure range.

No, there was nothing or no one to tell her that she had to recuse herself.

The question is, why didn't she feel she had to?

It all starts with the seat stolen from Merrick Garland. Mitch McConnell, the greatest traitor to this country since Robert E. Lee, was able to bend the rules and manipulate the process as he so often does in order to keep that seat open in the event of Republican-God in the Oval Office.

But it was a corrupt move, and only a person without honor would accept such a nomination.

Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Barrett are all cut from the same cloth.

The awfulness of this particular court is nothing new. It may sound counterintuitive, but in the nearly two-and-a-half centuries of its existence, the Supreme Court has been one of the most anti-democratic forces in this country.

Thanks to McConnell, we are currently strapped with a regressive majority of originalists that seems determined to reshape the country against the will of its people.

They have no honor, they have no decency, and they do not care what the majority of Americans want.

There are many, many reasons to expand the Supreme Court, but nullifying the power of this bunch of bought and paid for justices should be at the top of the list.

My guest today really needs no introduction. Malcolm Nance has been an outspoken proponent of American democracy for years and an extraordinarily important voice in helping people understand the dangers we've been facing.

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