This came yesterday after the Democrats in the Senate Judiciary Committee forced a vote on a bill that would impose an ethical code of conduct on Supreme Court justices, a measure which is unlikely to survive a filibuster and has zero chance of passage in the House.

The bill is the endgame – sort of – of the Democrats’ PR push which is intended to destroy the credibility of the Supreme Court in retaliation for several decisions which have come down recently that they don’t like. The affirmative action cases at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, for example, and the 303 Creative case upholding the religious freedom of Christians who resist being forced into participation in things like gay weddings, are recent examples.

But there’s another bomb about to be exploded, as the Supreme Court will soon announce rulings on cases in which the “Chevron deference” – that is, the presumption that federal bureaucrats’ actions are legal and constitutional even if those actions aren’t specifically authorized by Congressional legislation – could well be blown away.

Democrats are terrified at this prospect, because it would greatly reduce the ability of agencies like the Department of Energy, the EPA and others to make idiotic and totalitarian rules restricting commerce and things like land use. It would also break down a door and allow landowners and others to rush into court assailing those rules. The federal bureaucracy would spend a fairly significant period of time in retreat, and that would make for a very interesting next few years.

And that’s the genesis of this campaign to attack the Supreme Court on supposed ethical grounds, as though the Democrats in the Senate have any standing to complain about anyone else’s ethics.

Sen. John Kennedy has been a warrior against this campaign and he has absolutely worn out the majority in the Judiciary Committee on the subject of their assaults on the Supreme Court. After yesterday’s party-line vote, which sent the “ethics” bill to the full Senate where it will likely be filibustered and forgotten, he went on Neil Cavuto and laid the wood to them once again.