On Monday, the cackling coven of ABC’s The View kicked off the week by spitting venom and spewing nonsense against the conservative justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Between parroting long-debunked accusations of sexual misconduct, suggesting we needed to pack the court with liberals, and the preposterous claim that people didn’t recognize or talk about a justice’s political persuasion until the “conservative” co-host mentioned it.
The co-hosts were triggered by a video of Chief Justice John Roberts saying he didn’t understand how disagreement over opinions meant the legitimacy of the court was in question. So, unhinged “Republican” co-host Ana Navarro raged as she gave Roberts a “101 explanation for dummies on why Americans think there is a legitimacy issue with the Supreme Court.”
Her first point was peddling the long-debunked accusations against Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh. “[T]here's two Supreme Court justices who have serious sexual harassment or assault accusations against them,” she proclaimed without evidence of actual wrongdoing.
The second so-called point she made was about the “shroud of hypocrisy” around the nomination of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, where she falsely claimed the Justice was “confirmed five minutes before an election.” Whereas, now-Attorney General Merrick Garland didn’t get a hearing after President Obama nominated him to the Supreme Court.
But it was a lie that Justice Coney Barrett was confirmed five minutes before an election. She was confirmed on October 31, 2017, a full week before the off-year elections. That’s roughly 10,080 minutes or 2,016 times what Navarro claimed. This jesting aside, the Senate procedure known as Biden Rule only addresses Supreme Court vacancies during a presidential election year, not an off-year election.
Navarro then lashed out at Justice Thomas’s wife Ginni, proving that the real hypocrisy was seeping from The View set:
And last, and let's not forget because it's not least, there is a Supreme Court justice who is married to a wack job, [applause] who at the very least was on the fringes, involved on the fringes of January 6. Maybe at the worst more. We don't know because the January 6 Committee has not called her up, yet.
It was just last week that The View cast was defending White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s 2016 election denialism. At the time, Whoopi Goldberg argued that Jean-Pierre “was doing her part as an American citizen saying how she felt about an election. Whether you like it or not, everybody talks about everybody has the right [to] freedom of speech.” And Sara Haines said it’s “always okay” to “question” and “challenge” election results.
Moments later, co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in to opine on what the solution was to remove the “stench” of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Of course, the solution was liberal judicial activists or something worse:
HOSTIN: And we all now know that she probably had some insight into the fact that Roe v. Wade was going to be overturned, and I don't know how they get rid of the stench without packing the court or --
GOLDBERG: Starting all over again.
HOSTIN: As a lawyer, that hurts me.
GOLDBERG: I know that makes you – I saw you burst into a sweat. I’m sorry.
Hostin’s most ridiculous and preposterous remarks on the subject came when “conservative” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin noted that lifetime appointments tend to be a moderating force of justices, pointing out how Justices Sandra Day O’Conner and John Roberts sided with liberals more often as time when by.
In response, Hostin, who’s a former federal prosecutor, suggested that she “NEVER heard” someone mention “the political affiliations of a Supreme Court justice. No one ever talks about the fact that this judge is a Democrat, this judge a Republican.”
She even seemed to suggest Farah Griffin was the first person she’s ever heard say that. Of course, Farah Griffin immediately buckled to the nonsensical assertion:
FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, who appointed them – wasn’t speaking to what their –
HOSTIN: Well, you said one was a Democrat and then she became swing vote --
FARAH GRIFFIN: I think it's how you would have interpret it for a jurisprudence.
If that wasn’t enough nonsense for you; early in the conversation, while ranting about Roe v. Wade being overturned, Goldberg said that killing an unborn was about you being “free to be who you want to be, and other people don't have to like who you are.” She then added: “You just have to make sure you don't get in somebody else's business or hurt somebody or kill somebody.”
Someone might want to tell her abortion kills somebody.
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
September 12, 2022
11:15:28 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I mean, can someone's rights be a matter of opinion? I mean, I think John Roberts is being a bit disingenuous, you know? Yes, America's made some tough decisions including letting black kids go to school with white kids, letting gay people get married. There are many, many decisions that people freaked out about.
This one, this last spate of stuff comes from a place of religion which is not constitutional. That's not how we -- we are supposed to be doing things as far as I remember. Now maybe I'm wrong, but I don't remember -- I thought I was allowed to be who I am. That's why you want to be an American, because you're free to be who you want to be, and other people don't have to like who you are. You just have to make sure you don't get in somebody else's business or hurt somebody or kill somebody.
Now, this has become about my religious freedom to make sure that you follow my religion. I don't know that that's -- I don't know that he's -- the idea that he's pretending he doesn't know what's going on is surprising to me.
ANA NAVARRO: But there’s even much more than that. And I think –
GOLDBERG: Well, go ahead. Yeah.
NAVARRO: The key is the word you just said: freedom. Right? Those cases that you talked about were about granting more freedoms. This is about restricting freedom.
But if he doesn't understand why Americans are questioning the legitimacy of the court, let me explain it to him. Number one, there's two Supreme Court justices who have serious sexual harassment or assault accusations against them, and who a lot of Americans think -- don't have the moral character to be at the court.
Number two, they're making decisions that are way out of touch and against the majority of Americans. There are judges in there who have been appointed under a shroud of hypocrisy. Merrick Garland couldn't get a hearing because it was an election year, but Amy Coney Barrett got appointed and confirmed five minutes before an election. There was an unprecedented leak of a decision.
And last, and let's not forget because it's not least, there is a Supreme Court justice who is married to a wack job, [applause] who at the very least was on the fringes, involved on the fringes of January 6. Maybe at the worst more. We don't know because the January 6 Committee has not called her up, yet.
So, I hope that is a 101 explanation for dummies on why Americans think there is a legitimacy issue with the Supreme Court.
(…)
11:18:24 a.m. Eastern
SUNNY HOSTIN: But we had warning from Sotomayor. She said this, I think last year. She said that the Supreme Court won't survive the stench of overturning Roe v. Wade, before they overturned it. And she said, “will this institution survive the stench this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts? I don't see how it is possible.”
And we all now know that she probably had some insight into the fact that Roe v. Wade was going to be overturned, and I don't know how they get rid of the stench without packing the court or --
GOLDBERG: Starting all over again.
HOSTIN: As a lawyer, that hurts me.
GOLDBERG: I know that makes you – I saw you burst into a sweat. I’m sorry.
(…)
11:19:29 a.m. Eastern
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: So, Sandra day O’Connor appointed by Reagan, started as a Republican, became a swing vote, and then left as a Democrat.
SARA HAINES: Yeah, he used to be –
FARAH GRIFFIN: I would say John Roberts became more moderate as he was – Anthony Kennedy became more moderate in a lifetime appointment. My fear is if we cap the appointments, they're actually more subject to partisan whims. They’re trying to keep the party that empowered them happy.
So, I get this is not, like, the best moment for SCOTUS. I think it's probably the worst way that they've kind of been perceived publicly, but I don't know there's a simple answer in how we fix it.
HOSTIN: I have never heard, before this year and before really you said it, the political affiliations of a Supreme Court justice. No one ever talks about the fact that this judge is a Democrat. This judge a Republican. Because when they are on that court –
FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, who appointed them – wasn’t speaking to what their –
HOSTIN: Well, you said one was a Democrat and then she became swing vote --
FARAH GRIFFIN: I think it's how you would have interpret it for a jurisprudence
[Crosstalk]
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