U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has been caught in a scandal.

The scandal, according to the Washington Examiner, has to do with a so-called watchdog group called Fix the Court.

The group describes itself as:

. . . a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN: 86-1840317) that advocates for non-ideological fixes that would make the federal courts, and primarily the U.S. Supreme Court, more open and more accountable to the American people.

Accordingly, the group is supposed to be holding Supreme Court justices accountable. But, the truth of the matter, according to the Examiner, is that the group only seems to hold conservative Supreme Court justices accountable, while letting the liberals get away with whatever they want.

The allegations

The Examiner alleges that Fix the Court has "failed to track at least two speaking engagements by Democratic-appointed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor."

The question, of course, is why this is a big deal. We'll get to that in a moment. But, first, some more details about the trips.

The Examiner reports:

According to a Washington Examiner review of public records, Sotomayor traveled in July to Vienna, Austria. The justice, social media posts by the U.S. Embassy in Austria and other sources show, met with Austrian Minister of Justice Alma Zadić and a cohort of students.

This was one of the two trips. The Examiner continues:

In July, Sotomayor was also welcomed at the University of Zurich in Switzerland for a panel conversation with a professor and a journalist, according to an event announcement. Giving an introduction at the event was Suzan G. LeVine, a former U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, who also did a brief stint in 2021 as President Joe Biden's assistant secretary for employment and training.

Both events, according to the Examiner, were missing from Fix the Court's website. Since the Examiner's report, however, the group has filled them in.

"Partisan hacks"

Fix the Court is trying to claim this was an innocent mistake. Republicans, however, are pointing out that, thus far, the group has not made a single "innocent mistake" in their reports about Republican justices.

As one conservative attorney put it:

Gabe Roth and his Fix The Court outfit are partisan hacks funded by left-wing billionaires who want to tear down the Supreme Court’s conservative majority.

It is known that Fix the Court does have ties to dark money networks in Washington, D.C.

We also know that the group helped to push recent reports criticizing some of the conservative Supreme Court justices for failing to disclose certain gifts on financial forms.

One wonders what else is being hidden about the liberal justices.