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How a Supreme Court hit job reinforces a dangerous leftist trend

For progressives, every institutional norm is sacred until it stands in the way of their political goals.

Such is the case with the left’s latest assault on the Supreme Court.

It’s an ongoing campaign of public pressure, intra-court sniping and conveniently timed leaks — all designed to delegitimize the justices whenever the court refuses to function as a super-legislature for the Democratic Party.

Start with Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s remarkable outburst two weeks ago.

She publicly criticized Justice Brett Kavanaugh by taking a swipe at his “privilege” — as though a justice’s personal background somehow disqualifies him from participating in legal debate.

It was ugly stuff, more at home in a graduate seminar than among members of the nation’s highest court.

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Still, Sotomayor then did something vanishingly rare in our public life: She apologized.

The incident seemed to be a reminder that the court, for all its tensions, still functions better and with more civility than our other branches of government.

That should’ve been the end of it — but now it looks like the opening act.

Last week, Justice........

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