From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Senate Democrats hold their hearing on Supreme Court ethics.

But what kind of rules do they actually want to impose on the justices?

Plus, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice announces he will run for Senate in 2024,

putting Joe Manchin on notice. Welcome, Kyle Peterson, with the Wall Street Journal.

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel and editorial board member,

Manet Uquay-Berua.

Let's start with a clip from the Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday.

This is a montage of Senator Sheldon White House of Rhode Island, his opening statement,

giving his theory of the case where he refers to some hospitality that Justice Clarence Thomas has received

over the years from his longtime friend, Harlan Crowe.

We are here today because the Supreme Court is playing out of bounds of the ethics rules for federal judges.

Justices read the ethics rules in unique and eccentric ways,

and when they're caught out of bounds, they refuse to allow any investigation of the facts.

Some of this personal hospitality involves people dedicated to turning the court into a tool for right-wing billionaires.

Until there is an honest ethics process at the Supreme Court, these messes will continue.

The court has conclusively proven that it cannot police itself.

Kim, what did you make of the hearings? I mean, the thing that sticks out from Senator White House,

there is, does he really think that there is some secret campaign to make the Supreme Court a tool of right-wing billionaires?

That seems a little conspiratorial to me.

A little? Yes.

I wouldn't really trust anything but Shalvin White House says,

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