It's going to be so much fun reading Linda Greenhouse's columns over the next several years

According to Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court writer extraordinaire for the New York Times, new Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is "snarky" and like "the new kid in class with his hand always up." This is the kind of writing that passes for intelligent commentary these days in what is supposed to be our nation's greatest newspaper. Ms Greenhouse can't engage the substance of Justice Gorsuch's arguments, so, instead, like the well-entrenched New York saloniste she is, she seeks to assassinate his character with her best cocktail party sniffs and condescensions.

According to Greenhouse, Gorsuch violates the "habits, norms, unwritten rules" of the Supreme Court. When liberals lose elections, they always retreat behind "norms." Gorsuch "ooz[es] disrespect toward those who might, just might, know what they are talking about." How dare the uppity young conservative whippersnapper! Doesn't he realize he is in the presence of the Notorious RBG?

You can be sure that, if the newest member of the Court had been appointed by Barack or Hillary and s/he had authored numerous opinions in her/his first term, Greenhouse would be hailing the arrival of a fresh, new, progressive voice that had replaced the troglodytic originalist Scalia and heralded a new era of enlightened jurisprudence for the Court. That Greenhouse seems so blithely unconcerned with her so obvious bias is simply another sign of how far left the elites of the country have moved. To quote a particularly apt phrase I recently read being used of liberals, Ms Greenhouse is like a fish who does not know she is wet.

The learned textualist who has replaced Justice Scalia knows he is doing his job correctly if he provokes Ms Greenhouse to brandish her sting. Now that the Left has been not borked, but garlanded, it's going to be so much fun reading Greenhouse's embittered columns over the next several years.