Welcome, it is the verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, and we are publishing

on a Tuesday for a reason. The Democrats have decided that they want to have a conversation in

Washington in Congress over what they're describing as judicial ethics. The problem is it's nothing more than an assault on the

Supreme Court, and specifically there is one justice they're really wanting to go after, and that is

Justice Clarence Thomas. Senator, you're there in the middle of this. Talk about the Democrats and

their game plan for this quote judicial ethics conversation well

we're witnessing an historic assault on the court and what the Democrats are doing is launching a frontal

attack on the Supreme Court itself on the legitimacy of the court they're trying to tear down

the institution altogether the court. They are trying to tear down the institution

altogether. The reason they are doing that is that the Supreme Court is the one institution

that the hard left does not control. And there is right now a majority of justices on the court

who are committed to the Constitution, who are constitutionalists,

and that drives the left crazy. It is one of the very few checks that remain on out-of-control

left-wing assaults on our basic rights, on free speech, on religious liberty, on the Second

Amendment, that you have justices on the Supreme

Court willing to be faithful to the Constitution and not to leftist political ideology. But the

assault is not just directed at the court itself. The assault is very deliberately directed at one

justice in particular, Clarence Thomas.

You may have noticed in the last several weeks, article after article, after article, attacking Justice Thomas,

accusing him of being unethical, accusing him of being corrupt, accusing him of being bought and paid for. All of

this is designed to try to wear Justice Thomas down, and the objective of the left, I believe,

is they hope to drive him away from the court. Now, let me be clear. They will not succeed. But if you take a moment

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