This is NOT from the Onion or from Andy Borowitz. It’s a serious post from Talking Points Memo:
Republicans in America believe the Supreme Court is ideologically moderate or, if anything, liberal, according to findings from Pew Research Center released Monday.
The survey found pluralities of Republicans describing the high court — widely seen as having a conservative majority — as either “middle of the road” or liberal. Forty-five percent of conservative Republicans said the court has a liberal makeup, while 39 percent said it is down the middle. Among moderate-to-liberal Republicans, 45 percent said the Supreme Court is middle of the road and 29 percent said it’s liberal. No more than 15 percent of either group of Republican respondents called the court conservative.
Yep. Why, I bet that closet liberal Antonin Scalia is a secret contributor to Media Matters, and Clarence Thomas uses a pen name to write a diary on Daily Kos.
Y-e-p.
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